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...Wednesday, Federal District Judge Susan Webber Wright threw out Paula Corbin Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton. Wright, once Professor Clinton's law student, is a Republican judge appointed to the Federal bench by former president Bush. She ruled that Jones' case lacked the tangible evidence of sexual harassment and emotional distress needed to justify a trial against the President. As a result of this ruling, Jones' brief encounter with fame seems to have come to an end. She will now disappear from the political scene just as quickly as Monica S. Lewinsky burst onto...
President Clinton is "pleased," Paula Jones is "tearful," and Ken Starr is just doing his job, m'am. One day after Susan Webber Wright threw out the sexual harassment suit of the decade, all of the main players have had a shot at spinning the story. For the White House, it's a fully fledged vindication of Bill Clinton that puts pressure on Ken Starr to wrap up his Lewinsky investigation. Starr insists it has "no effect on our authority." And for Jones spokeswoman Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the ruling is a travesty that declares "open season on women here...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.: It'll be tough to claim that Federal District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright cut President Clinton, her former law professor, a break...
...While Wright was a student in an admiralty law course Clinton taught at the University of Arkansas in the early 1970s, she challenged him over the grade he gave her. She was also involved in Clinton's first political race in 1974 -- but she worked for his Republican opponent. Finally, Wright, a Bush appointee to the federal courts in 1990, remains a Republican...
...Never mind that Wright still has to rule on the motion for summary judgment -- remember that? -- brought by presidential lawyer Bob Bennett some weeks ago. Now there is the whole question of Juanita Broaddrick, a 51-year-old Arkansas nurse who denies under oath the Jones team's claim that Clinton raped her or ever made improper advances. Revealing her name, as Jones' lawyers did on Saturday, is "part of a continuing effort to taint the jury pool," according to Bennett. Wright's problem: In a hypersensitive case like this, any ruling she makes looks political. Her most likely solution...