Rowland lawyers to submit impeachment standards brief

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Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland's lawyers will submit a 26-page brief Monday to a legislative inquiry committee, laying out a legal and historical analysis of what standards of impeachment they believe should apply to the embattled governor.

One standard should be that impeachment should be reserved for grave misconduct during office, the brief says.

Ross Garber, Rowland's legal counsel, plans to ask the House Committee of Inquiry again to hold a hearing, allowing experts to testify on the issue of impeachment standards.

"The establishment of a standard of impeachment is of historic import as it will determine the circumstances under which the democratic election of this governor, and perhaps future governors, may be set aside," Garber wrote in a letter to be delivered Monday to the committee. "In light of what is at stake, a public discourse on standards is indispensable."

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--rowland-impeachme0229feb29,0,6598659.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

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1. I agree with John Rowland's lawyers

One standard should be that impeachment should be reserved for grave misconduct during office, the brief says.


I agree completely. And if the accepting of bribes and the change of policy positions to suit them isn't "grave conduct," then what is?

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2. Where does this leave

President Clinton's Penis?

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3. That's a set up line if I've ever heard one n/t