Au contraire. Judge (in this scenario, Senator) Moore can’t afford to just drop the civil suits he has against some of these people. He’ll have the yearbook placed in evidence, for one thing.Once discredit that first case, the rest of them mostly are tacky but were not illegal at the time and place (Alabama in 1978) alleged. Put the statute of limitations on top of that, and the gruel becomes exceedingly thin for a case to overturn the result of an election campaign in which these charges were public knowledge.
There is one groping allegation which was piled on later, by a woman of dubious credibility. IMHO Judge (or Senator, whichever he is after the election) Moore should sue the media not only for actual malice but also for monopoly. “The media,” however, is not the term to use. The actual defendant should be The Associated Press and its membership, joint and several liability. The AP actually was found to be in violation of Sherman in 1945, and now that its mission in conserving scarce and expensive bandwidth in the transmission of news is laughable (I put it to you that FR alone likely uses as much bandwidth as the AP did in 1945), it should be possible to put the AP in a real bind in court.
Drop what civil suit? Moore's threatened to sue but hasn't done anything yet.