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President Clinton has one chance left to avoid the embarrassment of becoming the first sitting President to star in his own courtroom drama. Led by Robert Bennett, his lawyers have asked Judge Susan Webber Wright to dismiss Paula Jones' case. They say that while Jones' claim began with a single thread--that then Governor Clinton harmed her in 1991, when he allegedly exposed himself and asked for sex in a hotel room--it has since been embroidered into a garish tapestry of ancillary allegations intended to mortify. This week Jones' lawyers will respond to the motion and in doing...
What's suspicious about some of these arguments is that they have appeared only recently. Judge Wright may view them as lawyerly confections designed to bolster a weak case. But Jones' lawyers have presented enough factual quarrels with Bennett's motion (such as the pay-raise issue) that Wright probably can't dismiss the suit...
...Billy Bob Thornton), is transparently James Carville. Daisy Green (Maura Tierney in the film) shares resumes with campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald. Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the manic "dust buster" who tries to cover up Stanton's peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages, is similar to Betsey Wright, Governor Clinton's chief of staff and trigger-happy troubleshooter. Lawrence Harris (Kevin Cooney), the New England Senator who runs against Stanton until being felled by a heart attack, could be the physically frail Paul Tsongas. Cashmere McLeod (Gia Carides) stands in for Gennifer Flowers. And Fred Picker (Larry Hagman...
...Clinton made sexual advances toward this string of women -- and then engaged in "a vast enterprise to suppress evidence" of his propositions. However, not all of this evidence would be mentioned in the trial itself, since testimony concerning Monica Lewinsky was barred from the case by Judge Susan Webber Wright. So why use it? Because, they hope, it hits the Clinton case harder than any courtroom battle. "This," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "is going to be their fullest shot at the President." Whether they get a chance to throw some more punches is now in the Judge...
...doesn't file her sexual harassment suit and the name Monica Lewinsky never even comes up." Now Brock has retracted his story, and Jones' case is crumbling. Her lawyers are expected to go to appeal Tuesday in a bid to get the Lewinsky evidence reinstated. But as Judge Wright says, it proves nothing about Jones' own alleged harassment -- and "would frustrate the timely resolution of this case." Next up: Wright rules on the Clinton team's motion to dismiss the suit altogether for lack of evidence. For Jones, the worst may be yet to come...