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Adultery is still illegal in the District of Columbia. Have sexual relations with a woman not your wife, the lawbooks say, and you're looking at 180 days in jail and a $500 fine. And until 1995, sodomy, including oral sex, was illegal in D.C. But whatever kind of sex...
If the charges against Clinton are true, he could be in the worst legal spot a President has been in since Nixon was forced from office. Evidence seeping out in the media could support charges of perjury, suborning perjury and conspiracy to suborn perjury, all serious crimes. They could also...
Clinton, Jordan and Lewinsky could all be charged with suborning perjury--encouraging a witness to lie under oath--and obstruction of justice. Lewinsky has reportedly said on tape that Clinton and Jordan tried to get her to lie about the alleged affair. Both men have denied it. Here too, much...
Though the Constitution doesn't define "high Crimes and Misdemeanors," there is little doubt that the worst of the obstruction-of-justice and perjury charges against Clinton, if true, would qualify. But Clinton's accusers would have the same difficulties in proving obstruction of justice at an impeachment that Starr...
I mention my homey vignette because already among the pundit class a consensus has emerged about the role of sex in the latest Clinton scandal: it is not, at the deepest level, about sex; the truly damning allegations are about possible perjury, and about the subornation of perjury, and about...