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Government

Aug. 2, 2011

Politics today: What’s sex have to do with it?

When it comes to politicians and sex scandals, public scorn is just the beginning of the end. By Laurie L. Levenson and Laura LeFeuvre of Loyola Law School


By Laurie L. Levenson and Laura LeFeuvre


One need only open the newspaper to see the flurry of recent charges against politicians throughout the country. While some of these charges involve professional malfeasance, others derive from sexual misconduct by the official. Of course, this certainly is not the first generation of politicians to be less than noble in their private lives. Sex scandals date back to the time of our Founding Fathers. Yet, there does seem t...

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