IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
FINAL RESOLUTION
Final resolution on disbarment
and further prosecution in January 2001
GRAND JURY
Clinton Testimony |
Lewinsky Testimony |
Procedures |
Supplemental Witnesses
HISTORICAL MATERIALS
Andrew Jackson |
Andrew Johnson |
Federalist Papers |
Richard Nixon
HOUSE FLOOR DEBATES
Articles of Impeachment |
Impeachment Debate |
Inquiry Authorization/Oct
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Articles of Impeachment |
Censure Resolution |
Impeachment Inquiry/Nov-Dec
Impeachment Report |
Preliminary Hearing/Oct
Senate Trial Memorandum/January |
Web Sites
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
Final Report - Ray |
Role |
Starr Report
JONES v. CLINTON
Clinton Deposition |
Lewinsky Deposition
Civil Contempt Ruling
Sexual Harassment Definition |
Sexual Relations Definition
KEY PLAYERS
Congress |
Congressional E-Mail |
Juanita Broaddrick |
Ken Starr
Linda Tripp |
Monica Lewinsky |
Paula Jones
President Clinton |
President's Legal Defense Fund
Sidney Blumenthal |
Vernon Jordan |
William Rehnquist
PROCEDURES
Background |
Congressional Rules |
Constitution |
CRS Reports |
SENATE TRIAL
Articles of Impeachment |
Censure |
House Prosecutors |
President's Summons Response
Senate Procedures |
Lewinsky Testimony |
Senate Trial Plan |
Senators
Trial Proceedings
Acquittal Vote |
Closed Deliberations |
Closing Arguments
Dismissal |
Proceedings |
Witnesses
Legal Documents
Blumenthal Deposition |
Jordan Deposition |
Lewinsky Deposition
President's Summons Response |
President's Trial Memorandum
Prosecution's Replication |
Prosecution's Trial Memorandum
RELATED MATERIALS
Disbarment |
Elections |
Gingrich Resignation
Livingston Resignation |
News Coverage
FURTHER RESEARCH
Comprehensive |
Lobby Groups |
Journal Articles
News Articles |
Party Web Sites |
Public Opinion
Last updated on March 28,
2007
- Description of the grand jury system at the federal and state levels
- Size, powers, term, functions, procedures
- President
Clinton's August 17th Testimony
Background
- Impeachment
Materials at UIC
- Description of impeachment, the impeachment process and historical
materials
- Excellent links to on-line sources and library materials
- The Jurist
- Guide to web materials on the impeachment and censure process
- Meant for law students and scholars but a popular bent
- Includes historical materials
Congressional Research Service Reports
- Bibliography of Congressional hearings, reports, resolutions and
bills on all U.S. impeachments (judges and presidents)
- Arranged by Impeachment or Censure, with each category subarranged by
name, time period, or result
- Citations are to pages in the Congressional Record and predecessors
or CIS entry number (keyed to CIS publications)
- Eighty-five articles written for New Yorkers in 1787 and 1788 urging
ratification of the U.S. Constitution
- Impeachment covered under the powers of the Senate
- Written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
- Text from Project Gutenberg and the Library of Congress
- Finding
Precedent: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Articles, illustrations and editorials on the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson from Harper's Weekly, 1865-69
- Historical context, the key issues, biographies, and post-impeachment
Presidency
- Impeachment
Documents Relating to a U.S. President (Auburn University)
- Full text of selected government documents relating to the
impeachment investigations of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton
- Includes procedures, reports, and hearings
- Text in Adobe Acrobat format
- Under construction as of October 1998 but considerable progress made
- Senate
Trial Proceedings (Library of Congress)
- Full text of the Senate impeachment trial (1868) of Andrew Johnson
- Images from the Supplement to the Congressional
Globe
- Explanatory text provides links to teaching materials
- Impeachment
Documents Relating to a U.S. President (Auburn University)
- Full text of selected government documents relating to the
impeachment investigations of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton
- Includes procedures, reports, and hearings
- Text in Adobe Acrobat format
- Under construction as of October 1998 but considerable progress made
- Impeachment Grounds: Part 5: Selected Douglas/Nixon Inquiry Materials
- Report written by the Congressional Research Service for the House Judiciary Committee
- PDF format only
- Watergate 25 (Washington Post)
- Chronology of events
- Interviews with Washington Post reporters and a selection of news stories
- Reforms made as a result of Watergate
- Background
- Andrew Jackson was censured rather than impeached
- Censure was removed by a subsequent Congress
- Andrew
Jackson's Protest
- Background
- Floor Debate
- Resolution Authorizing Formal Impeachment Inquiry
- House Resolution
581
- Republican resolution to begin impeachment inquiry
- Resolution passed: 258 (for) - 176 (against)
- Roll Call Vote 498 (Clerk of the House)
- Individual votes on the resolution arranged by yea and nay, then
alphabetically by Member
| HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
| |
- Background
- The purpose was to determine whether there was grounds for a formal impeachment inquiry
- The House Floor had to approve the conduct of the formal inquiry
- Proposed Resolutions
- Transcripts of Hearing
- House
Report 105-795
- Written after the committee hearing
- Text of House Resolution 581
- Describes House Judiciary Committee's reasons for recommending
impeachment inquiry
- Lists 15 possible felonies
- Includes dissenting views
- Transcripts
- House Judiciary
Committee
- Text of prepared statements
- Begins with November 9th statements on the Constitutional purpose of
impeachment
- Judiciary Committee Hearing, November 19, 1998
- Judiciary Committee Hearing, December 1, 1998
- Judiciary Committee Hearing, December 8-12, 1998
- House Judiciary Committee Hearing, December 10,
1998
- Articles of
Impeachment
- Censure
- Impeachment of
William Jefferson Clinton (House Report 105-830)
- Report by House Judiciary Committee dated December 16, 1998
recommending impeachment of the President
- Includes additional concurring and dissenting views
- Adobe Acrobat format
- Introduction
in Text Format (Washington Post)
- Response to Senate
Summons
- Response by the House Judiciary trial managers to the summons for an
impeachment trial in the Senate
- Document outlines the reasons for moving forward with the impeachment
trial
- Dated January 11, 1999
- CNN
Copy
- Final report by Richard Ray, released to the public on March 6, 2002
- Concludes there was evidence to prosecute the President but a decision
was made not to do so
- Independent Counsel's Report on the
President
- Independent Counsel's
Supplemental Report (House Document 105-311)
- Report contains Monica Lewinsky's deposition, Presidential
statements, map of White House, litigation history
- Over 3100 pages
- GPO
Access
- Adobe Acrobat version with HTML index
- Note that files could be timeconsuming to download
- CNN
Version
- Brief table of contents in HTML format
- Material is in GIF format; less time-consuming to download but must
be accessed one page at a time
- Court
TV Version
- Some files lengthy as of 9/22/98
- Plans underway to segment them for easier viewing
- Paper copy may be purchased the Government Printing Office; Stock
Number: 052-071-01274-5; $68.00 domestic
- Independent Counsel's October
2nd Supplement (House Document 105-316)
- Includes testimony of Bettie Currie, Marcia Lewis, Lucianne Goldberg,
and Presidential staff members
- CNN
Version
- GPO
Version
- President's Preliminary Rebuttal
- Preliminary
Rebuttal (White House)
- Rebuttal of accusations made in Starr Report
- Drafted by David Kendall, Charles Ruff, et al on
September 11, 1998
- Preliminary
Rebuttal (CNN)
- Rebuttal of accusations made in Starr Report
- Drafted by David Kendall, Charles Ruff, et al on
September 11, 1998
- President's Second Rebuttal
News Coverage
- Paula Jones
Case (All Politics)
- News stories, legal issues and public opinion
- Final settlement in the dispute
- Court TV
Coverage
- Case files include news and court documents
- Judge Susan Webber Wright, Arkansas East District Court, ruled on
April 12, 1999 that President Clinton had committed perjury in the Paula
Jones civil lawsuit
- Text of ruling in Adobe Acrobat format
- Deposition denies a relationship with the President
- PDF format - 289K
President Clinton's Deposition
- Legal Documents
- Excerpts of legal documents released to the public by both the Jones
and Clinton attorneys
- Includes depositions by the President, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey,
and White House staff
- Sealed
Documents
- Full text of documents released on October 19, 1998 in pdf format
- Court TV
Coverage
- Case files include news and court documents
Lawsuit Dismissal
- Lawsuit
Dismissal
- Judge Susan Wright dismissed the Jones lawsuit against President
Clinton on April 1, 1998
- Analysis of ruling and reaction of parties
- Future implications
- Public opinion polls
- Judge
Wright's Decision (Judgment Order, Opinion and Order, and
Filings Summary
- Federal
Definition (EEOC)
- Federal definition provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
- Appears in Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Paragraph 1604.11
- Search the Code of Federal Regulations via
GPO
Access for additional information
- Regulations issued pursuant to Section 703 of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 (42 USC
2000e-2)
- Legal
Definition (Penn State)
- Federal definition and examples
- Types of harassment
- Burlington
Industries v. Ellerth
- Supreme Court decision broadening ability to sue for harassment
even when no tangible effects felt
- Decision made June 1998
- Congressional
E-Mail
- E-Mail list for the 106th Congress, House and Senate
- Updated daily
- Henry Hyde
- Chair of the House Judiciary Committee
- Web site includes issues and biography
- Trent
Lott
- Web page of the Senate majority leader
- Description of office; news releases on positions expected with the
106th Congress
- Senator Joseph Lieberman's Statement
- Senator Arlen
Specter
- Senator Arlen Specter's statement about not proven charges and
Scottish traditions appears on page S.1534 of the Congressional
Record for February 12, 1999
- Background
- Juanita Broaddrick has charged that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted
her in 1978
- News broke in February 1999, after the impeachment vote
- Considerable press introspection on whether story should have been
broken
- Affadavit
Denying
Non-Consensual Sex
- Affadavit filed on March 30, 1998
- Dateline NBC
Interview
- Transcript of Lisa Myers' interview with Juanita Broaddrick on
February 24, 1999
- Links to opinion pieces and an interview with Lisa Myers
- No longer on the web but available to University of Michigan
affiliates in the Guided News Search/News Transcripts/CNN Transcripts
section of Lexis-Nexis
Academic
- Larry King Live
Interview
- Interview on story with Dorothy Rabinowitz (Wall Street Journal),
David Gergen (U.S. News and World Report), Patricia Ireland (National
Organization for Women), Howard Kurtz (Washington Post), William Bennett
(Empower America), and Jeff Greenfield (CNN)
- Aired on February 25, 1999
- No longer on the web but available to University of Michigan
affiliates in the Guided News Search/News Transcripts/CNN Transcripts
section of Lexis-Nexis
Academic
- National Organization
for Women Press Release
- NOW Calls on Clinton to Foreswear "Nuts or Sluts" Defense;
Work with Congress to Strengthen Women's Rights Laws
- Released by Patricia Ireland on February 25, 1999
- Wall Street Journal
- Initial story broken by Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street
Journal, Eastern Edition, February 19, 1999, p. A18
- Available to UMich Only via campus subscription to Pro-Quest
- President's January 17th Deposition
- Deposition in the Paula Jones case
- JPEG format accessible page by page
- Includes definition of sexual relations
- President Clinton's Denial on January 21 (CNN)
- Transcript of interview with Jim Lehrer of PBS
- Includes relationship with Monica Lewinsky
- President Clinton's Denial on January 26 (CNN)
- The President's denial appeared on television
- It was not logged as an official transcript
- President
Clinton's August 17th Testimony
- President's
Speech on Grand Jury Testimony (AllPolitics)
- Transcript of four-minute address to the nation on August 17, 1998
- Admits responsibility for Lewinsky situation and calls the nation to
move ahead
- Links to related stories
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents copy
- President's Rebuttal
- Preliminary
Rebuttal (White House)
- Rebuttal of accusations made in Starr Report
- Drafted by David Kendall, Charles Ruff, et al on
September 11, 1998
- Preliminary
Rebuttal (CNN)
- Rebuttal of accusations made in Starr Report
- Drafted by David Kendall, Charles Ruff, et al on
September 11, 1998
- President's Second Rebuttal
- President's
Answers to the Judiciary Committee's 81 Questions
- President's
Apology/Rebuttal of December 8 (CNN)
- President
Clinton's Apology
- Apology delivered on December 11 just before Judiciary Committee
impeachment vote
- President's
Statement Following Impeachment Vote (December 19, 1998)
- President's Response to Senate Summons
- President's 13-page response to summons for Senate trial
- Issued by David Kendall and Charles Ruff on January 11, 1999
- President's
Trial Memorandum
- Detailed reasons why President should not be impeached
- 130-page memo outlines arguments
- Written by David Kendall and Charles Ruff; submitted on January 13,
1999
- Senate Questions to President
- Text of 10 questions submitted by Senate Republicans to the President
on January 25, 1999
- President's
Legal Defense Fund (Washington Post)
- Contributors to President's legal defense fund, 1994-June 1998
- Searchable by name, size of contribution, and location
- Updated by the Center for
Responsive Politics
- President's Apology Following
Acquittal
- Biography (Cornell Law School)
- Factual biography and decisions since 1990
- American
Bar Association
- Describes impeachment procedures in question and answer format for the layman
- Includes Senate and House procedures and alternatives
- Federal Impeachment Process: A Bibliographic Guide (Cornell)
- Bibliography of sources on English law, U.S. constitutional law,
court cases, book and journal articles
- The Jurist
- Guide to web materials on the impeachment and censure process
- Meant for law students and scholars but a popular bent
- Includes historical materials
- Background
- Impeachment is covered by Article II, Section IV
- Constitution
via Cornell Law School
- Original text of Constitution with hyperlinks to
amendments
- No annotations
- Constitution of the United States Annotated
- Constitution and Amendments annotated with
references to Supreme Court cases as of 1996
- Large files without hyperlinks in the text
- Senate and Government Printing Office
project
- Censure: A
JURIST Mini-Guide
- Censure procedures and alternatives
- Historical censures and Andrew Jackson's protest
- Cornell
Law School
- Definition of censure and probable process
- Senator
Feinstein's Resolution
- Senator Feinstein moved to suspend the rules for a censure resolution
on February 12, 1999
- Blocked procedurally by Senator Phil Gramm
- Roll call vote appended to text of Congressional Record
- House Resolution 614
- Appoints 13 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee to be floor
managers (i.e. prosecutors)
- Response
to Senate Summons
- Response by the House Judiciary trial managers to the summons for an
impeachment trial in the Senate
- Document outlines the reasons for moving forward with the impeachment
trial
- Dated January 11, 1999
- CNN
Copy
- Comprehensive
- Miscellaneous
Senate Publications (GPO)
- List of Senate Documents and the Congressional Record with
impeachment materials
- Indicates number of pages and links to various formats (pdf, html,
text)
- President
- Prosecution
- Response
to Senate Summons
- Response by the House Judiciary trial managers to the summons for an
impeachment trial in the Senate
- Document outlines the reasons for moving forward with the impeachment
trial
- Dated January 11, 1999
- CNN
Copy
- Prosecution's
Replication
- House Trial Managers' rebuttal, dated January 12, 1999, to the
President's response to the Senate summons, dated January 11, 1999
- Witness Depositions
- Bipartisan plan adopted unanimously on January 8, 1999
- Calls for trial to begin on January 13, presentations, vote on
dismissal, and vote on witnesses failing successful dismissal vote
- CNN
Summary
- CNN
Full Text
- Modifications on Witnesses (January 28)
- Witnesses will be deposed, Feb. 1-3, with the Senate reconvening on
February 4
- Videotapes could be made available to the public
- Senators Lott and Daschle must agree on additional witnesses
- Target for ending the trial is February 12 but not fixed
- Final solution still in question
- Washington
Post story and roll call votes on the two Democratic and one
Republican plan)
- Modifications on Live Witnesses (February 4)
- CNN Coverage
- Roll
Call Votes
- Six roll call votes: admitting depositions into evidence, calling
Monica Lewinsky as live witnesses, using only the transcripts, presenting
videotaped depositions on the Senate floor during closing arguments,
begin closing arguments, requiring House managers to notify Senate of
parts of videotaped deposition being used in closing arguments
- Text
of Debate on Live Witnesses
- Roll
Call Votes (Washington Post)
- Complete Transcripts
- CNN
- Washington
Post
- Congressional
Record (THOMAS/LOC)
- Full text of proceedings on the House and Senate floors, including
documents, votes, calendars, and summaries of activities
- Although it covers the trial, it does not contain the full text of
presentations before the jury
- See commercial sources above for the trial presentations
- Trial will probably be printed as a Congressional hearing
- Searchable by subject and member of Congress; browsable by date and
section
- Impeachment proceedings begin with unanimous consent resolution on
Senate Floor on January 6, 1999
- Acquittal
- Roll Call Votes
- Washington Post
- Acquittal
Vote
- Roll call vote on both Articles of Impeachment from CNN
- Senator
Feinstein's Resolution
- Senator Feinstein moved to suspend the rules for a censure resolution
on February 12, 1999
- Blocked procedurally by Senator Phil Gramm
- Roll call vote appended to text of Congressional Record
- Closed Deliberations
- Closing Arguments
- Congressional
Record (via THOMAS)
- Text of closing arguments appear in the Congressional Record for
February 9, 1999
- Dismissal of Case
- Motion
to Dismiss Case (CNN)
- Senator Byrd's resolution presented on January 25, 1999
- Includes transcripts
- Closed
Door Discussions (Washington Post)
- Roll call vote on opening discussion of dismissal to public
- Includes hot links to the Senators contact information
- Case dismissal defeated on January 27, 1999
- Witnesses
- House Managers' Motion (CNN)
- Motion to call Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal
- Recommendation to invite President Clinton
- Made January 26, 1999
- Memo
in Support of Witnesses (CNN)
- Memo by House Managers explaining the rationale for calling the witnesses
- Presented on January 26, 1999
- Vote to Depose Witnesses
- Modifications on Witnesses (January 28)
- Witnesses will be deposed, Feb. 1-3, with the Senate reconvening on
February 4
- Videotapes could be made available to the public
- Senators Lott and Daschle must agree on additional witnesses
- Target for ending the trial is February 12 but not fixed
- Final solution still in question
- Washington
Post story and roll call votes on the two Democratic and one
Republican plan
- Modifications on Live Witnesses (February 4)
- CNN Coverage
- Roll
Call Votes
- Six roll call votes: admitting depositions into evidence, calling
Monica Lewinsky as live witnesses, using only the transcripts, presenting
videotaped depositions on the Senate floor during closing arguments,
begin closing arguments, requiring House managers to notify Senate of
parts of videotaped deposition being used in closing arguments
- Text
of Debate on Live Witnesses
- Roll
Call Votes (Washington Post)
- See also Witness Depositions
Background
- After Ken Starr resigned as Independent Counsel, Robert Ray
investigated further criminal action against President Clinton
- The issues were resolved on January 19, 2001, the President's last
full day in office
- He would admit misleading the public in return for a 5-year
suspension of his law license in Arkansas and $25,000
- There would be no further criminal prosecutions
News
Coverage
- CNN
- Article describing the agreement
- Links to Robert Ray's further decisions, including Whitewater
Official
Statements
- Southeastern
Legal Foundation
- Petition to the Arkansas Supreme Court to remove President Clinton
from the Arkansas State Bar for unethical conduct
- Dated September 15, 1998
- Includes time line and additional statements through 2000
- Supreme Court Disbarment
- ABC
News
- Former President Clinton disbarred from practicing before Supreme
Court
- ABC news story of October 1, 2001
- CNN
Report
- CNN news story on Newt Gingrich's resignation as Speaker from the
House and from Congress
- Bob Livingston's plan to run as speaker
- Steve Largent's plan to challenge Dick Armey as majority leader
- Biography
- These web pages may be eliminated by their source due to the resignation
- CNN
- Numerous primary documents and key rulings
- Timeline of events that links to individual reports
- Public opinion polls
- Court
TV
- Legal analysis of the Jones and impeachment cases
- Primary legal documents
- Policy.com
- Text of statements by politicans and political analysts
- Primary documents
- Washington
Post
- Numerous news stories and full text of documents
- Legal descriptions for the layman
- Research
Guide on Impeachment (Library of Congress)
- Extensive bibliography of internet and print sources on impeachment,
both historic and current
- Features background on Andrew Johnson's impeachment,
Johnson's Senate trial, and Congressional reports on all previous
impeachments
- Judicial
Watch
- Conservative nonprofit organization for preserving civil liberties
- Sent alternative reports to Henry Hyde (Sept. 1998) and Trent Lott
(Dec. 1998) outlining additional evidence for impeachment
- Lobby Groups
- Links to web pagegs of the most prominent conservative, liberal and
issue-oriented lobby groups
- Academic
Universe/LEXIS (UMich Only)
- Full text of U.S. and foreign newspapers for past several years
- Access General News Topics
- Sources include major newspapers, newspapers from all 50 states, and
the foreign press
- Sample search: impeachment w/s acquit! and publication (new york
times) and MAJOR NEWSPAPERS and date from 2/1/99
- CNN
- Numerous primary documents and key rulings
- Timeline of events that links to individual reports
- Public opinion polls
- Policy.com
- Text of statements by politicans and political analysts
- Primary documents
- Washington
Post
- Numerous news stories and full text of documents
- Legal descriptions for the layman
- Political Party Web
Sites
- Multiple lists of political party web sites and organizations
- Many have issue briefs on impeachment
- Public Opinion
Polls
- Annotated list of the most prominent public opinion polls on the
internet, including Gallup, Harris, and Time
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