documentAlthough I helped defend Clinton before Congress and in the court of public opinionHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
I was critical of his sexual misconduct while in office. In my book Sexual McCarthyism
documentAt the very beginning of the Lewinsky matterHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
I had received a call from someone close to the White House giving me the phone number where Monica was staying and urging me to call her. I perceived a possible conflict of interest
documentBy far the greatest legal blunder of the 20th Century was committed by President Clinton’s lawyer in the Paula Jones caseHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
Robert Bennett. Bennett allowed his client to be questioned under oath in a deposition about the details of his sex life and to deny that he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. This sworn denial became the basis for an impeachment in...
documentDuring the height of the Lewinsky affairHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
I found myself sitting right next to the President at a large dinner party. He asked me what I was working on and I told him I was finishing a book called the Genesis of Justice about the first book of the Bible. Clinton is incredibly knowl...
documentMR. HIGGINBOTHAM: I take profound disagreement with Congressman Barr's categorization of the ""real AmericaHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
which he apparently understands with such fine discernment
documentMR. DERSHOWITZ: When I hear you describe me as something other than a real American -- shame on you. We may have a disagreement about the merits of these issuesHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
but I would no more impugn your Americanism than you should impugn mine
documentI challenge anybody to say that there is no difference between a police officer who deliberately frames an innocent man or woman who he knows is [innocent] and subjects that person to false imprisonment or the electric chairHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
documentI think this committee is doing a terrible disservice to the rule of law and to the sanctity of the oath by trivializing the differencesHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
as Judge Tjoflat said in one of the most unbelievably wrong-headed statements I have ever heard from a judge
documentIf we really want to reduce the corrosive effect of perjury on our legal systemHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
the place to begin is at or near the top of the perjury hierarchy. If instead we continue deliberately to blind ourselves to pervasive police perjury and other equally dangerous forms of lying under oath
documentI think it is clear that the false statements of which President Clinton is accused fall at the most marginal end of the least culpable genre of this continuum of offensesHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
and would never even be considered for prosecution in the routine cases involving an ordinary defendant.
documentOn the basis of my academic and professional experienceHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
I believe that no felony is committed more frequently in this country than perjury and false statement crimes. Perjury during civil depositions and trials is so endemic that a respected appellate judge once observed that
documentFor nearly a quarter of a century I have been teachingHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
lecturing and writing about the corrosive influences of perjury on our legal system -- especially when committed by those whose job it is to enforce the law
documentAgain short term considerations prevailed. FirstHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.
the President’s political advisors urged him to avoid that day’s image of the President walking into the courthouse – the so-called “perp walk.” The White House agreed therefore
document“I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that womanHouse Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)1 pp.