What crime did Bill Clinton do to be impeached and forced out of office?

Question

Emily j thats not a crime,,,

justacon,,,lying is not a crime,bush does it all the time...

Bill all he did was a little lie under oath,put Bush in the hot seat and it would burn with lies thats just a technicality of the game,,,Bill was forced out of office INDERECTLY he had a choice yes resighn or be impeached,,more like threats from GOV,,,like he had a real choice to stay?,,,,put bush in the same position and he is going to step down QUICK...faster than DJ QUICK can say a bad word..lol....

Answer 1

he was never forced out of office. He was impeached for lying to congress about his affair with Monica Lowinski. No president has been forced out of office. Nixon resigned before congress could force him out

Answer 2

He was impeached for lying under oath to a grand jury. He wasn't forced from office, far from it. He left office with a higher favorability rating than Bush has enjoyed for quite some time. Probably could have won a third term if it was constitutional.

Answer 3

ok - i'm a Clinton fan and a non secular Liberal yet i'm getting a splash ill of the consistent partisan misrepresentation that is going at right here by employing the two aspects. Clinton confronted impeachment for mendacity under oath approximately his sexual activities - no longer for what he did. sure that's real that his sexual activities ought to have no longer something to do with the standard public or with congress. sure that's real that he did no longer commit any variety of crime different than mendacity. sure that's real that it became into the only acceptable in hypocrisy for Gingrich to be asking Clinton approximately his intercourse existence on a similar time as he became into having an affair and making plans to another time commerce in his spouse on a youthful form. yet on the tip of the day Clinton did the incorrect element.

Answer 4

Bill Clinton was not forced out of office. He served two terms, the limit in the United States.

The crime that Bill Clinton was impeached for is lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinski and obstruction of justice during a civil trial pertaining to a sexual discrimination case.

You do realize that an impeachment is not the process of removing a President from office right? An impeachment is an arraignment. If you committ a crime the District Attorny will bring you in front of a judge for an arraignment. If the judge finds that there is enough evidence that you committed a crime, the case will go to trail. An impeachment is the same process.

In the case of impeachment, the House of Representatives draw up articles of impeachment on the President or Vice President. These articles are sent up to the Senate where they must decide if 'high crimes or misdemenors' are proven in these articles. If they are, the President or Vice President is brought to trial with the Supreme Court presiding and the Senate serving as a jury. If found guilty the President or Vice President may be imprisioned and/or removed from office.

In the case of Bill Clinton, the Senate decided that there was not enough proof of a 'high crime or misdemenor' and the impeachment proceedings were halted by a 50-50 vote (they needed 2/3s to convict him).

Two Presidents have been impeached - Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. No President has been removed from office.

EDIT - FreePre - Lying under oath is a very serious crime in the United States. It is called perjury and in some cases is a felony.

Answer 5

Well it's 11.57pm..I never thought that i could be entertained at this time of night.
Basically most of you got it right.
Where you run into trouble is the asinine way some of you tried to justify him. Wouldn't you agree that he is just an immature little boy that never grew up emotionally? Added to a narcissistic personality.
The one that really gets me is when they try justifying with,"other people do it",like that means it's ok for him to break the rules.
The dumbest thing they tried was in trying to convince people that oral sex wasn't sex! Give me a break!! If it's not sex then why for ion's has it always be called oral sex. [maybe it's because they couldn't remember "oral copulation" or that wasn't a turn-on].
RKO: referring to what he was charged with wasn't called "sexual discrimination". Nor the act that he did with "that woman" falls under that title. There is an unwritten law,that you don't play hide the cigar with Pages.
His averaged approval rating when he left office was at 57%. But that is only based on the concept of individuals while in office,not actual performance. That will be left up to Historians. The rating that i have read be some call it mediocre at best.

Answer 6

Bill was never forced or impeached out of office. They tried to impeach him for lying to congress about him get a BJ with Monica Lowinski. No president has been forced out of office.
I would to see Bush be impeached for $9 trillion in debt and the blunder in Iraq.

Answer 7

Clinton was accused of perjury--which is a crime. However,, what somepeople don't understand is that an impeachment is only an indictment. The Senate heard the evidence--remember, this was a GOP senate at the time--and found Clinton INNOCENT. He was neither convicted nor forced out of office.

You'll notice tha tthe neocons have a habit of neglecting to mention that fact--the senators from their own party found Bill Cliton innocent of any illegality.

Answer 8

Bill Clinton lied about the Monica Lewenski affair (which I think was set up against him). He, however, was never forced out.


BTW:

I say it was set up because of one thing; the dress. No one knew how long the dress had been kept. And the real question had to be asked, "why did you keep the dress"?

You also have to question Congress, because they were going to impeach him anyways for the affair. That's why he was put on trial, and that, untimately, is why the House went and impeached him. The lying thing was a cover up. The real question there was, "why"?

Answer 9

He purjored himself while giving testimony under oath. Basically he lied about getting it on with a chubby little intern.
He deserved impeachment for a lot of things but that wasn't one of them, in my humble opinion.
Just a note, when a person assumes the responsibility of President of the United States, they get a card with the nuclear launch codes. They have to keep it on their person during all waking hours. President Clinton is the only one who has lost the card. President Truman left in a suit that was taken to the cleaners but had the Secret Service retrieve it. It was taken as evidence in the suit worn by President Reagan in his assassination attempt by the Washington D.C. police but was retrieved by the Secret Service. President Clinton was the only one to lose it never to be seen again.
He was too irresponsible for the office.

Answer 10

Bill Clinton Was impeached By a Republican Majority Congress, but He was not forced out of Office.

Answer 11

Slick Willy wasn't forced out of office. He was impeached for supposedly lying about an adulterous sexual affair with another consenting adult, something that stuffy Republicans don't take lightly! So Republicans wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and thousands of valuable hours trying to make one of the most popular Presidents of modern times look like some kind of lecherous old geyser (maybe they were trying to make Bill look more like themselves!). Instead, good ol' Bill emerged more popular than ever, and to this day is well-liked by most Americans.

By the way, TroubleM, it disturbs me that you say Clinton "had a sexual relationship with a subordinate and that is not permitted in the government". If that's not permitted in the government, somebody better be telling most of our members of Congress! My guess is that after they spent hours grilling Clinton about his sexual dalliances, many of those 'holier-than-thou' sufficiently-titillated Republicans went back to their little office cubbyholes to be 'comforted' by their young secretaries, aides, interns or receptionists, and did the same damn thing they were admonishing Mr. Clinton for doing!
One thing we definitely know about our elected officials: almost ALL of them have some kind of skeleton in their respective closets! There are cross dressers, prescription pill poppers, wife beaters, child molesters, petty thieves, homosexuals, drug addicts, adulterers, alcoholics, cheats, liars, white collar criminals, pedophiles, and maybe even a murderer or two in the hallowed halls of the Capital Building! Bill Clinton wasn't the first politician to practice the pleasures of wanton oral desire; he certainly wasn't the last!! My guess is it goes on in all those secret little Congressional hide-aways every single day of the week! My guess is it's a prerequisite for landing a job as an intern or a Congressional page.
-RKO- 11/24/07