Sep 10 2009
Marc Sanford is facing a “Kangaroo Court”
At least that’s what the embattled South Carolina Governor tried to claim on Thursday as he responded to growing calls for his resignation.
“We have a real problem if members of the General Assembly are going to try to influence and truncate an investigative committee to get the result they want to go ahead on impeachment,” Sanford said. “I get that members of the General Assembly want me gone, but that’s been the case for six years.”
Sanford then accused state lawmakers of trying to set up a “kangaroo court where you may as well base the whole thing on media headlines.”
Kangaroo Court or not, you have to believe that this guy’s days as a governor are numbered. There are likely enough votes in the state House to impeach the governor, but the legislature isn’t scheduled to meet again until January.
That doesn’t necessarily mean the governor is safe until then. House speaker Bobby Harrell and the rest of GOP leadership could bring back the legislature for a special session to remove Sanford before January, but Harrell says they are waiting to see the results of an ongoing ethics investigation.
