Word: legally
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...dueling provide that the accused party gets to pick the time, the place and the weapons. But Ken Starr and Bill Clinton have been circling each other for months; each wants the match to take place on his own preferred ground. As long as this has remained a legal contest fought with briefs and staged in a courtroom, Starr has been winning every round. And so all year long, the President's seconds have looked for a way to move the whole bout to a friendlier venue, such as the boiling floor of the House of Representatives, where politics...
...know this must never happen, because they have spun out all the elaborate scenarios for how this drama might play out and concluded that Clinton has everything to lose by talking and everything to gain by his silence. The more he defies Starr, the more he confounds the whole legal process, the more likely it is that the battle will tumble into the greasy impeachment machinery of the House of Representatives, where Clinton has wanted it to land all along...
...problem with this whole approach, however, is that while indicting Lewinsky may be Starr's strongest legal option for forcing the President to tell his story, it is Starr's weakest political option. As Lewinsky's father Bernard pointed out last week, many Americans might have trouble with the idea of a special prosecutor sacrificing a pawn to corner the king. Lewinsky's lawyer William Ginsburg, in an open letter to Starr published last week in California Lawyer, wrote, "Congratulations, Mr. Starr!... You may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults"--which of course seems...
...decision put plenty of politicians and pressure groups 180 degrees from normal. Oregon senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, spoke of a victory for state's rights, while the National Right to Life committee complained that the government wasn't providing a safety net. Death With Dignity allowed the first legal suicide in U.S. history back in March. Thanks to the Attorney General, there could soon be plenty more...
WASHINGTON: This was the one Ken Starr really needed. When the Supreme Court took a pass Thursday on the two legal disputes that Starr needed to have settled right away -- attorney-client privilege and the testimony of the Secret Service -- it essentially gave Clinton a six-month reprieve...