🚀 go-pugleaf

Go home you fucking idiot.  

People, you would benefit greatly from ignoring such stupidity.

E.S.

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> This man is scum.  He is going to order your sons and daughters to their deaths in an undeclared, illegal war that cannot be won AGAINST A SOVERIGN COUNTRY THAT ATTACKED NO AMERICAN OR NATO COUNTRY.
> Write your rep's and tell them NO GROUND TROOPS!
> 
> Contempt Ruling Could Have Big Cost for Clinton
> Updated 4.12 p.m. ET (2012 GMT) April 14, 1999
> By Steve Holland  WASHINGTON � President Clinton's contempt of court
> ruling raised the possibility Tuesday that he could be charged hundreds
> of thousands of dollars more in legal fees and be disbarred from
> practicing law in his home state.
> 
> J. Scott Applewhite/APClinton has always insisted that his answers in
> the Jones deposition were 'legally accurate' even though admittedly they
> were misleading
> 
> U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright of Little Rock, Arkansas, found
> Clinton in contempt Monday for giving "false, misleading and evasive
> answers" in his Jan. 17, 1998, sworn testimony in the Paula Jones sexual
> harassment lawsuit against him.
> 
> White House officials were leaving it up to Clinton's lawyer Robert
> Bennett to comment on the ruling. Bennett has declined comment beyond
> saying that he is reviewing the ruling. Clinton has 30 days to request a
> hearing or file a motion to appeal.
> 
> There has been no official announcement of his decision, but the
> Washington Post reported in Wednesday editions that the president did
> not plan to challenge the order.
> 
> It quoted sources familiar with the advice Clinton has received from
> attorneys and advisers, but said the president had not yet been
> presented with a final recommendation.
> 
> Lanny Davis, former White House special counsel, said he was
> recommending Clinton not appeal the order.
> 
> "This is a non-story that the books are closed on and the country has
> moved on and so should he," Davis said. He said Wright could have made
> her point without citing Clinton for contempt, calling it "extremely
> irregular" that she did so.
> 
> Wright ruled that Clinton must pay any reasonable expenses, including
> attorney's fees, caused by his "willful failure" to tell the truth in
> the Jones testimony.
> 
> Mike Wintroath/APClinton has already paid Jones and her lawyers $850,000
> to settle her lawsuit
> 
> She also referred the matter to the Arkansas Supreme Court's Committee
> on Professional Conduct for review, meaning Clinton could be barred from
> practicing law in Arkansas after he leaves office.
> 
> Clinton's denial under oath in the Jones case that he had a sexual
> relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky triggered a
> year-long ordeal in which he was impeached by the U.S. House of
> Representatives and finally acquitted by the Senate in February of
> perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
> 
> Clinton has always insisted that his answers in the Jones deposition
> were "legally accurate" even though admittedly they were misleading.
> 
> Asked if Clinton still felt he told the truth, White House spokesman Joe
> Lockhart said: "I don't believe the president has changed his view."
> 
> John Whitehead, who was one of Jones' attorneys, said he did not yet
> know the total legal fees and expenses that he and a team of six or
> seven other lawyers incurred during the deposition process and the
> events that occurred afterward.
> 
> "We'll have our billable hours. So you're looking at mucho, mucho, mucho
> hours. You're looking into the hundreds of thousands in legal fees,"
> Whitehead said.
> 
> Plus, he said, the lawyers' legal expenses would total tens of thousands
> of dollars.
> 
> "We're going to hit him for what's fair," he said.
> 
> Wright herself has ordered Clinton to pay the $1,202 it cost for her to
> travel to Washington from Little Rock in January 1998 for the Jones
> deposition.
> 
> What constitutes reasonable attorneys' fees was likely to be a dominant
> topic in Bennett's deliberations over whether to appeal the ruling.
> 
> Stephen Saltzburg, law professor at George Washington University in
> Washington, said Clinton should let the contempt order stand and not
> appeal. He doubted whether the court would approve huge legal fees and
> expenses against Clinton.
> 
> "I think it would be a bad mistake to appeal it because it just invites
> the court to say something more bad about it," Saltzburg said. "I think
> he would be better off letting this go."
> 
> Clinton has already paid Jones and her lawyers $850,000 to settle her
> lawsuit. He has run up about $9 million in legal bills defending himself
> against various legal entanglements over the past six years. About $3
> million of that has been paid, leaving him with outstanding legal debt
> of at least $6 million.
> 
> Clinton, in a CBS interview on March 31, said he did not regard the
> historic impeachment vote against him in the House as a "badge of
> shame."
> 
> Now he faces the ignominy of being the first president ever cited for
> contempt.
> 
> Saltzburg said it could have been worse, that Wright could have charged
> Clinton with criminal contempt, which carries possible criminal
> penalties.
> 
> "Her opinion is not that harsh an opinion in most respects. It could
> have been a lot worse," he said.

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