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To: Swampfox One
SERIOUSLY. HAS JUDICIAL WATCH EVER WON A CASE? HAVE THEY PUT ANYONE IN JAIL OR PUNISHED THEM? HAVE THEY BROUGHT THE CLINTONS TO JUSTICE?

Man get a clue. Only a prosecutor can charge people with crime. A lawyer can't do that? No lawyer. Not Klayman. Not any lawyer. All a law firm can do is sue someone for damages in CIVIL court. Lawyers can't bring criminal charges. Civil suits can't put people in jail. They are civil... civil people deciding a civil case civily. Civil cases are only about money. At best they could make the Clinton's pay money to the person doing the sueing. That means all that would or could happen if Klayman had won one of the cases against Clinton, is that Clinton would have to pay him money...after years of appeal.

Only the Justice Department can file criminal charges against anyone for a federal offense. Im state courts only elected prosecuting attorneys can get a grand jury to indict for crimes and bring a criminal case. NOt even cops can file a felony case. They have to get a prosecutor to do so. In many cases he has to get a grand jury to indict.

All Klayman can sue for is money to compensate for damages to his clients. His problem is he has never been able to prove damages. He can claim someone damaged his client and ask the court to give them money. If he had won those cases against Hillary and Bill the most it could have cost them was what Bill gets for a couple of speeches. In most such cases such suits end up like Paula Jones suit. Most of the money Clinton paid went to Paula's attorneys. Klayman won none of his cases. Clinton settled with Paula.

159 posted on 02/20/2002 3:20:59 PM PST by Common Tator
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To: Common Tator
You know I always read your posts and chuckle. You just have the all the answers and that lengthy media background to back it up. JW has done much for the cause of rooting out corruption in government, if only to get information into the mainstream that otherwise would have been undiscovered or buried.
163 posted on 02/20/2002 7:35:11 PM PST by Registered
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