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 For Immediate Release
Dec 29, 2000 Contact: Press Office
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IN HIS FINAL DAYS, CLINTON USES EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REVERSE ETHICS STAND AND MAKES IMPROPER RECESS APPOINTMENT OF FEDERAL JUDGE

Actions Show Continued Lack Of Respect For Constitution And Rule Of Law

Judicial Watch Determined To Bring Clinton To Justice

(Washington, DC) In Bill Clinton’s final days as President of the United States, notwithstanding his and his wife’s obvious plans to retake the White House in 2004 under a President Hillary Rodham Clinton Administration, the Clinton-Gore Administration has again shown its disrespect for ethics and the Constitution by using executive orders to pursue its purposes.

First, skirting accepted norms under the Constitution, Bill Clinton named a federal appellate court judge through a recess appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District. Rather than relying on the law, Clinton’s appointment, by his own admission, was based on racial politics. Besides the impropriety of the recess appointment, this is an outrageously unethical basis on which to appoint anyone to government office, let alone a federal judge.

Second, and not surprisingly, Bill Clinton revoked the one executive order that he entered that made sense; the ban on former White House officials “lobbying” the White House for five years after the close of his administration. This opens the door for the “moneychangers,” including the President himself, to cash in on their years of employment for the Clinton-Gore White House.

“Judicial Watch has over 80 active lawsuits concerning Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, members of the Clinton-Gore Administration and their federal agencies. While Judicial Watch has scored many victories in the last 6-1/2 years; it is determined to not only have the Clintons and Al Gore pay large damages to its clients for their ‘rape’ of the legal system and others, but also to have them land in jail where they belong,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.

“There can be no closure until these outlaws are brought to justice,” added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.


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