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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: jlallen who wrote (3811)9/3/1998 10:08:00 PM
From: Doughboy  Read Replies (3) of 13994
 
Nothing was ever proven on Bush. The story had no legs as previously stated because it
could not be verified.

Right, so the survival of a presidency should depend on whether or not an insane woman like Linda Tripp decided on her whim to wire up conversations while she was in the Bush Administration or when she was in the Clinton Administration?

Discovery is a party's right under the Rules of Civil
Procedure and no Court approval or intervention is required unless the opposing
party fails to comply.

You made my point exactly. Thank you. Anyone can get discovery if they get passed the motion to dismiss. And you can't stop the deposition on relevance grounds, as I recall. That means you're home free to ask any President anything unless you have a particularly active judge who will put a stop to it. (And even then, the Supreme Court seemed to say that there were limits to protecting the President as well.) Why would we let private litigants have so much control in bringing down a President? We're just inviting the Larry Klaymans of the world to make names for themselves. Will you be so sanguine when its James Carville initiating dozens of lawsuits against President Quayle?

We'll just have to be more careful
about the kinds of people we elect in the future.

Well, then you'd better strike, let's see, Newt Gingrich, John Kasich, Jack Kemp, Phil Gramm, from your lists of future Presidents.

Doughboy.
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