Paula Jones would like to see her case reopened....If this were a hopeless case, why are all the newspapers reporting that the president's lawyers are considering settlement?
Carl, I, for one, have no idea why the president's lawyers are considering settlement. But I do have an idea about why they OUGHT to consider settlement, irrespective of whether the President is guilty or not. The case should be settled because the public interest demands it.
If the lawyer who was initially handling this case (can't remember right now which one it was), had gone for settlement right after the Supreme Court ruled that the case could proceed (on what has proved to be the mistaken assumption that it would not interfere with the President's performance of his duties), we might have been spared a lot of totally unnecessary trauma. There was the risk, of course, that settling would be construed as admission of guilt, and that it could precipitate a whole mass of new harassment suits, but the risk was well worth taking, IMO.
jbe
P.S. I, for one, also appreciate your effort to keep the discussion focussed on the issues, not on the personalities of the discussants on this thread. Don't give up. |
