Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week it emerged that another conservative moneyman was present at the creation of Clinton's other legal headache, the Paula Jones case. Jones brought suit after she recognized herself as the woman named "Paula" in the 1994 Spectator story about Clinton's alleged caperings while Arkansas Governor. Last week the Chicago Sun-Times reported that two of the troopers who were sources for that article, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, were paid by Peter W. Smith, a Chicago investment banker and large G.O.P. contributor, who spent about $80,000 over 18 months to get tales about Clinton's personal...
...like your curves"--or, alternatively, "I like the way the hair falls down your back." And when all else fails: "Kiss it." Lawyers of the future will know to reach at once for the trademark wordplay of Robert Bennett, growling at plaintiffs, "This is tabloid trash with a legal caption." Even our knowledge of medicine has deepened. Everyone now knows that Peyronie isn't an Italian luncheon meat...
...Society," so called because of their odd, slightly extraterrestrial appearance. Suddenly these outraged defenders of Clarence Thomas were exquisitely sensitive to the pain of sexual harassment. And when Jones filed her case--employing an absurdly expansive reading of the Constitution's "equal protection" clause so beloved of left-wing legal gadflies--their advocacy never wavered...
...related assistance, and the feminist establishment wonders whether this really can, in fact, within the confines of the law, be called, as a technical matter, you know, sexual harassment. The question turns, apparently, on the boss's feelings about federally subsidized child care. "We've got a legal system, and it works," chirped Senator Carol Moseley-Braun when the suit was dismissed. Moseley-Braun owes her election in part to public outrage over the manhandling of Anita Hill. On that happy day when the Senator is returned to private employment, we can only hope her future boss takes note...
What has evolved in the Jones case is not vindication of the legal principle that no one is above the law and that the ordinary citizen ought to have a day in court. Instead, it is the fundamental error of judgment shown by the Supreme Court in ruling against the appeal by the President for a delay in the trial until he is out of office. Certainly, the dignity and sovereignty of the office of the President should not have been allowed to be so terribly besmirched. (THE REV.) RALSTON B. NEMBHARD Orlando...