"her feeble attempts to prove how "damaged" she was would have been thrown out of court even more quickly than they eventually were.
Hmm, I guess I still don't get why he paid if the case were so feeble. There must have been some kind of worry that the dismissal would be overturned on appeal.
"And it is, indeed, standard practice to show the defense evidence collected during the discovery phase of a trial "
Yes, I should have said 'is it customary at that stage of the procedure'. Discovery comes before trial but after the indictment is handed down. Impeachment is the equivalent of indictment if we're going to equate it to a criminal trial.
"It is the Judiciary Committee's job to investigate the charges before sending the question to the House & Senate."
Call me cynical but I think you just might be complaining if they did spend time and money on investigating further. Didn't Ken Starr spend some time and a few dollars doing the investigation?
"(Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky are not the world's most credible witnesses)"
Credibility of witnesses is traditionally determined by the jury (or the judge if no jury) during the trial. Again, that's a job for the Senate.
"Perjury has to be material, deliberate, willful, clearly false, and above all, proven."
Charges need not be proven in order to take a defendant to trial. That's what the trial is for, after all.
"He's being impeached because a large minority of the House really hates his guts."
Umm, if that's true, he won't be impeached. They need a majority in order to do that.
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