From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:04:57 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: The grandest jury nullification? - Irrelevant (fwd)
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> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:13:22 +0000
> From: Ian Briggs <ian@deepwell.com>
> Subject: Re: The grandest jury nullification? - Irrelevant

> >Has it occurred to anyone that if Congress really does end up voting for a
> >censure instead of a full impeachment we will have the largest jury
> >nullification in history, if it's based upon the consensus of the people per
> >the various samples.
> 
> Has it occured to anyone that if Congress votes for censure, we will have
> the fastest rulling by the Supreme Court that censure is unconstitutional
> in the history of the U.S.?

How's it going to get there? The ex_president certainly won't appeal (and
face removal from office) and since Congress passed it they likely won't
appeal.

Besides the Constitution says that Congress must stop at removal from office
and barring from future offices. It is clearly within their power to simply
slap his hand or write him a bad report card.


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