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HenchPAC NewsLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- President Clinton's disbarment case probably won't be heard by an Arkansas judge before the president leaves office next year, the judge's law clerk said Wednesday.
Judge Leon Johnson has a full docket and won't make any special effort to squeeze in a Clinton hearing sooner, clerk Chantel Mullen said. The president leaves office Jan. 20.
However, some cases scheduled for trial are in settlement talks, and one could drop off of the docket, allowing the Clinton case to come up by the end of the year as requested by the state Supreme Court disciplinary panel, Mullen said.
Johnson was appointed in June to serve through the end of the year for a judge removed from the bench. He accepted the Clinton disbarment case after four judges disqualified themselves because of their ties to Clinton while he was Arkansas governor.
The disciplinary committee moved to have Clinton stripped of his license to practice law in his home state for denying under oath that he had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton has said disbarment would be too harsh a punishment.
The president was earlier found in contempt of court over the testimony. He did not fight the citation and paid $90,000 in fines.
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