Essay on William Jefferson Clinton Should Have Been Impeached

In January 1998 independent Counsel Kenneth Starr began investigating allegations that President Bill Clinton had lied under oath to conceal a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In September 1998 Starr released a voluminous report and referred 11 possible grounds for the president’s impeachment to the House of Representatives. Starr charged Clinton with obstruction of justice, lying under oath (perjury), witness tampering, and abuse of power.

Ever since January 21, 1998 when the scandal of the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky broke press, the entire world focused its attention on the investigation of independent counsel Kenneth Starr (Starr 4). More recently, there has been serious talk about the possibility of impeachment.

This has caused worldwide debate over whether or not Clinton's actions are worthy of such a punishment. The formal grounds for impeachment fall under obstruction of justice during the Jones vs. Clinton sexual harassment lawsuit by lying under oath and concealing evidence of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Also, Starr has offered a sufficient amount of evidence suggesting that the President's actions with respect to Lewinsky constitute an abuse of authority inconsistent with the President's constitutional duty to execute the laws (Starr 295).

The question that all of this possessed was “whether or not the President should be impeached. In the public and press, many often mistook the reason for possible impeachment to be due to the fact that Clinton had an affair with Lewinsky. This is quite untrue. Clinton and Lewinsky are both consenting adults and their relationship, though immoral, was not illegal. However, it is illegal to lie under oath of the grand jury. Bill Clinton's actions definitely constitute reason for impeachment. It is important that Clinton was impeached because he had proven himself to be dishonest, he created a bad image for our nation, and most importantly, he broke the law...................

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