Arkansas Supreme Court recommends Clinton disbarment
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court
recommended Monday that President Clinton be disbarred because of
"serious misconduct" in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
A majority of the panelists who met Friday to consider two
complaints against the president found that he should be
disciplined for false testimony about his relationship with
Monica Lewinsky, the Supreme Court said in releasing the
committee recommendation.
Under the rules of the Committee of Professional Conduct, the
disbarment recommendation goes to a Pulaski County Circuit Court
judge in Little Rock for disbarment proceedings. If the judge
disbars Clinton, the president can appeal to the state Supreme
Court.
Clinton attorney David Kendall said in a statement: "This
recommendation is wrong and clearly contradicted by precedent. We
will vigorously dispute it in a court of law."
Clinton, who was Arkansas governor from 1979 to 1981 and again
from 1983 until he was elected president in 1992, has been a
lawyer for more than 25 years and taught at the University of
Arkansas law school. He has not practiced since the early 1980s,
between his first and second terms as governor.
"This action is being taken against (Clinton) as a result of the
formal complaints ... and the findings by a majority of the
committee that certain of the attorney's conduct, as demonstrated
in the complaint, constituted serious misconduct," in violation
of state rules governing lawyers, the committee's executive
director said in a letter to the court.
The letter, dated Monday, was signed by James Neal, the
committee's executive director, whose retirement from the panel
was also announced on Monday.
The committee has 14 full-time members -- lawyers and nonlawyers
-- who sit in panels of seven. Because of Clinton's widespread
connections throughout the state, eight of the panelists bowed
out before Friday's meeting, most of them citing potential
conflicts of interest.
Of the six who heard Clinton's case, five are lawyers and the
sixth is a retired schoolteacher.
The Southeastern Legal Foundation of Atlanta and U.S. District
Judge Susan Webber Wright referred Clinton to the committee,
saying he lied when he denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky
during a deposition in the Jones case in January 1998.
The foundation wanted Clinton disbarred and Wright did not
suggest a specific penalty.
"This is a confirmation that the legal system will police its
own, regardless of the position held by the attorney in
question," said Matt Glavin, president of the foundation.
"Remember, this is the first time in American history that a
sitting president faced disciplinary proceedings."
Clinton sought something no harsher than a letter of reprimand,
according to Glavin.
Wright also cited Clinton for civil contempt and fined him
$90,000 for giving "intentionally false" testimony.
In his deposition in the Jones case, Clinton said: "I have never
had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky." He acknowledged Aug.
17 before a federal grand jury -- and again in a nationally
televised address -- that he had an inappropriate relationship
with Ms. Lewinsky.
President Nixon was disbarred by a New York court after resigning
over the Watergate scandal in 1974.
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