![]() ![]() “There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount,” liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday at an event hosted by the American Bar Association. There’s been a raft of speeches and books from Supreme Court justices recently and they do not paint a picture of a court in harmony. He denied most of the allegations, apologized “if I offended anyone,” and won anyway. I had actually forgotten that in he final days of that 2003 recall election, Schwarzenegger too faced allegations of groping and sexual harassment. I recall his time in office as a moderate Republican, a model for the party before it embraced Trumpism. I recall his governorship and the recall election that put him there. This is evidence that scandals fade over time. It was a very painful and terrifying place to be,” she said.Īfter listening to the Lewinsky episode of Axelrod’s podcast, I noticed another blast from the sensational past in CNN’s excellent Total Recall podcast, in which Dana Bash revisits the rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger as California’s governor. The Clinton example is unlike that of former President Donald Trump, who was accused of harassment but won anyway in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.īill Clinton was an avowed defender of women’s rights and man in a supreme position of power compromised by his treatment of a young woman. “I’m not as sure that we’re quite as far form that if it were a handsome young Democratic president who was quote unquote good to women.” Have things changed? Axelrod asked Lewinsky if she thought Clinton’s behavior would be accepted today. And he had begun his tenure with the support of activists organized under the Time’s Up banner, although that support did not age well. Andrew Cuomo was forced out by allegations of harassment, after all. It’s hard to believe that a male politician like Clinton could survive his affair and his lying about it in this #MeToo era. It’s not inconceivable that younger generations will know her just as much if not more for her activism than for the sensational coverage of her affair with Bill Clinton decades ago. She’s involved in the new FX miniseries about it, but Lewinsky has also emerged as an activist against bullying and cyberbullying. Listen to David Axelrod’s Axe Files podcast interview with Monica Lewinsky, who after decades being known as the intern who had the affair with the President has solidly taken control of her story. ![]() Monica Lewinsky details mental health struggles she endured during Clinton affair scandal TODAY - Pictured: Monica Lewinsky on Wednesday, Octo- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Nathan Congleton/NBC/Getty Images ![]()
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