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Clinton Resigns From Supreme Court Bar
Clinton Resigns From Supreme Court Bar
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2001
WASHINGTON Impeached former President Bill Clinton resigned from the Supreme Court bar Friday rather than face disbarment after being disciplined by the Arkansas bar for lying.
On Oct. 1, Clinton was suspended and given 40 days to show why he should not be disbarred.
The suspension was automatic after Clinton's deal earlier this year with an independent counsel. Clinton accepted a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license in exchange for dropping any threat of prosecution over his false testimony in the Paula Jones case. On Jan. 19, the day before leaving office, Clinton admitted giving false, evasive statements about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The Supreme Court ordered the suspension on the first day of its term Oct. 1 in a one-paragraph, boiler-plate order: "Bill Clinton, of New York, New York, is suspended from the practice of law in this court and a rule will issue, returnable within 40 days, requiring him to show cause why he should not be disbarred from the practice of law in this court."
``Former President Clinton hereby respectfully requests to resign from the bar of this court,'' his lawyer, David Kendall, said in a two-page letter to the high court's clerk. Kendall did not say why Clinton decided to resign.
Clinton's resignation will have little practical effect. He has never practiced before the Supreme Court and was not expected to in the future.
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