I think he had to "admit wrongdoing" or something like that. Basically it was a plea bargain. Nobody wants to see an ex-President sitting in jail.That must be where the $25,000 fine comes in.He...voluntarily suspended his own license? You sure? The NY Times disagrees with you. Please note the date:
Clinton Disbarred From Practice Before Supreme Court
Published: October 1, 2001
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ordered former President Clinton disbarred from practicing law before the high court on Monday and gave him 40 days to contest the order.
The court did not explain its reasons, but Supreme Court disbarment often follows disbarment in lower courts.
In April, Clinton's Arkansas law license was suspended for five years and he paid a $25,000 fine. The original disbarment lawsuit was brought by a committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court followed its standard rules in the Clinton case, which include suspending Clinton from practice in the court and giving him 40 day to show why he should not be permanently disbarred.
The court order did not mention any vote by the justices.
"Whenever a member of the bar of this court has been disbarred or suspended from practice of any court of record, or has engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the bar of this court, the court will enter an order suspending that member from practice before this court," Supreme Court rules say.
Julia Payne, a spokeswoman for Clinton, referred calls to his lawyer, David Kendall, in Washington. Kendall did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Clinton Disbarred From Practice Before Supreme Court - NYTimes.com
Why don't you read your own post? He voluntarily suspended his own state license, and this is from your post
The Supreme Court followed its standard rules in the Clinton case, which include suspending Clinton from practice in the court and giving him 40 day to show why he should not be permanently disbarred.
The court order did not mention any vote by the justices.
"Whenever a member of the bar of this court has been disbarred or suspended from practice of any court of record, or has engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the bar of this court, the court will enter an order suspending that member from practice before this court," Supreme Court rules say.
No. That is not what my source said. He asked to voluntarily relinquish his license rather than undergo all the penalties and other stuff that would have been involved had he been removed involuntarily which they had already decided to do.
Working from memory, I believe the fine was to pay the attorneys who brought the disbarrment proceedings against Clinton in the first place. The payment of the fine and agreement to not challenge a five-year suspension/disbarrment, which I believe was a couple or three months after Clinton left office, ended once and for all the whole Whitewater investigation and then the Paul Jones/Lewinsky investigation that resulted in the obstruction of justice and perjury conviction and/or court rulings.
I don't believe Clinton has ever applied to renew his law license. Since he nets an average of several hundred thousand dollars per speech for public speaking, I'm pretty sure practicing law is not among his priorities right now, but so far as legal prosecution goes, he and Hillary are now in the clear, at least as the law is concerned, for anything they did before or while he was in office.
Like Boedicca said though, it's fascinating watching his supporters twist themselves into knots trying to make him look good or at least not as bad as his press.![]()
That was it. What Bill Clinton did was disgusting and there is nothing whatsoever to commend it or justify it. With his legal skills he knew that both perjury charge and obstruction of justice charge were absolutely on point. But he also knew that his base would forgive him and adore him as if it had never happpened. So he didn't challenge disbarrment by SCOTUS and he cut a deal with the prosecutor and the Arkansas court to accept a reasonable penalty and put it all to an end. He had already paid Paula Jones I think something like $850,000???? to shut her up and end that ugly scenario.
Would he have been able to cut a deal like that if he was a private citizen and not the outgoing POTUS? I don't know. But I'm pretty sure that did weigh heavily on the decisions that were made. His base had already made him into a poor, unjustly accused martyr and putting him in jail or prolonging the proceedings would certainly have exacerbated that. Look how they're defending him now.
As for any piccadillos involved on that island, I seriously doubt Hillary cares one way or the other other than what any backlash in negative publicity might do to her compaign.
