1. Although he is a persistent Clinton critic, Santorum has not yet said if he will vote to convict the president. 2. Censure was as dead as the House campaign to convict the president. 3. Defense lawyers have argued that while judges might be removed for perjury or such crimes, convicting a president required a higher standard because it involved overturning an election. 4. Equally revealing is the extent to which Republican senators were pressured to convict the president. 5. Furthermore, the final outcome of any vote to convict the president is expected to fall along party lines. 6. If a majority of the House approves one or more articles of impeachment, the Senate would then conduct a trial and vote whether to convict the president. 7. If banality were a crime, these tapes would convict the president. 8. In addition, five other Republican senators voted to acquit Clinton on the perjury article, but voted to convict the president on the obstruction charge. 9. In his statement, Feingold stressed that his votes do not mean that he would support convicting the president. 10. In this case, good conservatives were those who voted to convict the president on both counts. |