Posted on 11/17/2017 9:58:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You mean like cat fight?? Lotsa cliques in high school.
What was the age of consent in Alabama at the time? That’s right, fourteen.
Age of consent was 14 at the time.
RE: What was the age of consent in Alabama at the time? That’s right, fourteen.
Actually it was 16.
Oh wow, yes.
Not what I've heard; that change is a lot more recent.
Doesn’t someone else smell a rat? This man is beginning to look like he will win a senate seat and suddenly, really suddenly, a bevy of women come forward with accusations from 40 years ago or so. This smells to high heavens, but it is all the democrats have to stop him.
three other 16- to 18-year-old girls
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.
The fact of the 17th AmendmentThe Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.with its democratic emphasis, raises a strong question what business the Senate has unseating a senator (and if he wins election he will be a senator at that moment) over anything in that senator’s past, especially distant past, which was known to the voters of Alabama when the election was held. There being essentially no reason to consider the past to be prologue when so much water (including a long and uncontentious marriage) has gone under the bridge since 1978.When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
I even wonder if Democrats have that much hypocrisy in them. And exactly why would the Democrats prefer a do-over when the governor would name another Republican anyway - and the prospects of a Democrat running against the Republican would be pretty thin after so much contention if they couldn’t win against Moore with the propaganda headwind Moore has been subjected to.
Of course it might depend some on the margin of victory; a 10% blowout would probably moot everything.
Drop what civil suit? Moore's threatened to sue but hasn't done anything yet.
Southern and European tradition is to marry girls in their late teens. Only in the 20 century has this changed and marriage become disposable.
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Am I the only one who fears the legions of felons that are being registered to vote by the Rats running all over AL? Same thing happened in Miss. Never underestimate what the Rats and paid Soros slaves can do to an election in the South. Wave a dollar in the getto and who knows what you can get to the voting booth.
Possibly. But how do you prove she’s lying?
You say it does not matter because the whole thing is put up for political purposes.
You say Roy Moore reports the people of Alabama. They knew all this, and they elected him.
You say that allowing the media to pick and choose Senators is un-American.
You say that accusations from 40 years ago are far less important than a life lived for the last 40 years.
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