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The impeachment process against President Bill Clinton following the discovery of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky
The Starr Report constructed a day-by-day narrative of a sexual relationship between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, anchoring its timeline in Lewinsky’s own testimony, contemporaneous Whi...
On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton gave a videotaped grand-jury testimony in which he acknowledged having a relationship with Monica Lewinsky that he called “not appropriate” or “improper,” ex...
The Starr Report catalogued a series of sexual encounters between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, describing oral sex and other intimate acts in explicit detail to support its findings tha...
president have faced criminal-processing events in American history: was physically arrested for a local traffic violation in 1872, and was criminally charged beginning in 2023 and later tried and con...
Yes — Democrat-led oversight committees have a clear precedent for holding private (closed) depositions: and long-standing committee practice authorize depositions to be conducted in private unless ot...
’s () was a sprawling criminal and congressional investigation that produced tapes, indictments of aides, and a presidential resignation; ’s inquiries (, ) were sprawling politically and legally but c...
played little documented role in the final arithmetic that spared both and from removal: in both cases the recorded tallies fell short of the two‑thirds threshold that would have been required to conv...
The Constitution’s two‑thirds convicting threshold for Senate impeachment trials was designed as a high political bar to ensure removal from office only with broad consensus, a principle and early com...
Media narratives and partisan framing refracted both impeachments through different prisms—Clinton’s as a salacious personal scandal that many outlets treated as “private misconduct” turned public, an...
The Starr Report concluded that President Bill Clinton had lied under oath and committed perjury, engaged in obstruction of justice, and had followed a pattern of conduct inconsistent with his constit...
Bill Clinton faced criminal exposure for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice arising from his denials about a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, was the subject of the...