General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Regarding Impeachment [View all]I know a lot of people who work in the family court system. Lawyers and judges. Not a single one expects that people will be 100% honest and accurate in those cases, because those involved tend to be highly emotional and subjective in their testimony. There are, of course, exceptions. Vincent Bugliosi noted in one of his books, when discussing the Clinton episode, that no one is ever charged criminally if they lie in a legal procedure about a blow job. It just doesn't happen.
The republicans that attacked President Clinton did it for entirely political purposes, in an attempt to gain in power by damaging Clinton. That is the best modern example of politics infecting the legal system. It had nothing to do with what the Founding Fathers intended with impeachment. More, we hear republican pundits attempting to trick the public into believing there is no difference between impeaching for a blow job, and impeaching the orange dick-dripping who is as corrupt as any politician in our history.