The Nation : Impeachment Move Dies

The Alaska Senate laid to rest a move to impeach Gov. Bill Sheffield and gutted a resolution questioning the governor’s actions. The Senate signaled the impeachment issue was dead when, without debate, it placed in the Senate Journal a rules committee report saying there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing to impeach the Democratic governor, accused of steering a lease to a political supporter and lying about it under oath. As amended and passed by the Senate, the resolution reads that the Senate failed to find “clear and convincing” evidence that the governor had committed an impeachable offense.