Word: wrighting
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This past week, U.S. District Court judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed Paula Jones' sexual harassment case on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to go to trial. According to Judge Wright, Jones' claims of the "hostility and animus" she felt from her supervisors did not demonstrate sexual harassment...
...Wednesday, Federal District Judge Susan Webber Wright threw out Paula Corbin Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton. Wright, once Professor Clinton's law student, is a Republican judge appointed to the Federal bench by former president Bush. She ruled that Jones' case lacked the tangible evidence of sexual harassment and emotional distress needed to justify a trial against the President. As a result of this ruling, Jones' brief encounter with fame seems to have come to an end. She will now disappear from the political scene just as quickly as Monica S. Lewinsky burst onto...
...should welcome this news. Legal issues aside, Judge Wright's ruling has saved us from a long, hot summer of tawdry trial revelations about the President's sexual history and anatomy and spared us the spectacle of a media feeding frenzy at Camp Little Rock concealed by a facade of earnest journalism...
Although her claim of harassment may have been found to be groundless, neither the court of Judge Wright nor public opinion has exonerated Clinton from claims of extramarital wandering. The stories of Jones, Lewinsky and Katherine Willey are still out there--buttressed by the President's own admission of an affair with Gennifer Flowers in his deposition for the Jones case. It is unlikely that Clinton's standing and legacy will ever be able to rise above these indelible stains on his past. Although his approval ratings are high, it is unlikely that we will ever be able to look...
President Clinton is "pleased," Paula Jones is "tearful," and Ken Starr is just doing his job, m'am. One day after Susan Webber Wright threw out the sexual harassment suit of the decade, all of the main players have had a shot at spinning the story. For the White House, it's a fully fledged vindication of Bill Clinton that puts pressure on Ken Starr to wrap up his Lewinsky investigation. Starr insists it has "no effect on our authority." And for Jones spokeswoman Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the ruling is a travesty that declares "open season on women here...