Seriously: Dershowitz has floated the standard that anything a president does to hold onto power is an official act, because a president might sincerely believe that his reelection is a matter of national security. Sounds like something SCOTUS might adopt, for GOP presidents anyway.
I hope he feels like a real schmuck for abandoning traditional Democratic principles. At least he got a blow job out of the deal. The rest of us just got blown.
This:
"A president who uses the power of the Oval Office to seduce a 20-something subordinate is morally bankrupt and contributing, in a meaningful way, to a serious social problem that disadvantages millions of women throughout their lives."
"The wrongdoing at issue was never just a private matter for Clinton family; it was a high-profile exemplar of a widespread social problem: men’s abuse of workplace power for sexual gain. It was and is a striking example of a genre of misconduct that society has a strong interest in stamping out."
"As Clinton himself said, it was “not appropriate,” “wrong,” and a “critical lapse in judgment” — phrases that could easily have appeared in the introduction to a resignation message."
"the broader issue of men in general abusing positions of power to obtain sexual gratification is most certainly not a trivial issue or a private matter."
