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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorrie coey who wrote (25461)	12/31/1998 4:46:00 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Respond to of 67261

>That's your opinion and you're entitled to share it. >Clinton should never have been questioned about a >consensual situation. Apparently it was the opinion of Clinton himself (and also the opinion of the Democrat-controlled Congress) in 1994 that he should be questioned about it. So, the irony is that Clinton's own law is what got him into trouble. Back in the pre-Monica days of 1994 when Anita Hill was still fresh in everyone's mind, and the Democratic Party still viewed sexual harassment as a serious matter, Congress passed and Clinton signed the "Violence Against Women Act" which (among other things) re-wrote the federal rules of evidence to allow questioning of a defendant's sexual history. In fact, it specifically created an imbalance in favor of the plaintiff by allowing questioning of a defendant's sexual history, while dis-allowing similar questioning of a plaintiff's sexual history.