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Politics : OKAY, YOU ASKED FOR IT, SEX AND POLITICS!!!

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To: hpeace who wrote (341)	5/28/1997 10:22:00 PM
From: mikesloan	of 351

What's wrong with being friendly? (just joking) Australian Financial Review May 29/97 Clinton loses fight to delay Jones sex hearing By Colleen Ryan, Washington The Paula Jones sexual harassment case now has the potential to become the distinguishing issue of the Clinton presidency, following the US Supreme Court decision to allow the case to proceed. The justices decided unanimously yesterday that the case should not be delayed until 2001 when the President leaves office, as his lawyers had argued. Unless settled, it is likely that the case could come to trial within a year, according to Mr Gilbert Davis, Ms Jones's lawyer. The prospect of depositions and a highly publicised court case -- the first for a sitting President -- could be politically devastating. It contributes to the aura of a second term which already promises to be scandal-ridden, thanks to the Congressional investigations into irregular campaign donations and the alleged links with the Chinese Government, and the continuing work of Whitewater Special Prosecutor Mr Kenneth Starr. Ms Jones claims that Mr Clinton summoned her to a hotel room in Arkansas in 1991, when he was Governor and she was a State employee, that he exposed himself to her and demanded oral sex. The President denies the allegation. Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling did not deal with the facts of the case, but simply whether the case could proceed while the President was in office. The President's lawyers had argued that dealing with Ms Jones's lawsuit would take time away from his presidential duties. They also claimed that it would violate the constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary because it would give a trial judge control over when Mr Clinton must be in court.The Supreme Court said that an earlier district judge's decision to delay the trial until after Mr Clinton left office was an abuse of discretion. Both sides yesterday indicated that they were open to settlement -- but on their own terms.

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