Legal Panel to Investigate Clinton’s Conduct
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday ordered its professional conduct committee to investigate complaints that President Clinton lied and obstructed justice in the Paula Corbin Jones sexual harassment case.
The committee could suspend the president’s law license or recommend he be disbarred if it finds merit in the complaints.
White House spokesman Jim Kennedy said Thursday, “We’re not commenting on it.”
Arkansas lawyer L. Lynn Hogue filed the first complaint on behalf of the Southeastern Legal Foundation of Atlanta on Sept. 15, 1998.
Thursday’s order was issued after Hogue told the court he thought the complaint had been ignored for more than a year.
“This is a victory, not only for SLF, but also for the nation’s legal community and the millions of Americans who still believe that lawyers who lie under oath have forfeited their right to practice law,” foundation President Matt Glavin said.
The second complaint was filed by U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright last April after she found Clinton in contempt of court for his statements in the Jones case.
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