Jones Ruling

Re “Judge Throws Out Jones’ Suit,” April 2: This a great day for the rule of law and for those who have experienced true sexual harassment. By dismissing the case against President Clinton, Judge Susan Webber Wright has stopped the assault against the hard-won principles that allow for the definition and prosecution of sexual harassment. The true crime in this episode is that the U.S. Supreme Court justices allowed this case to proceed to trial. The only winners are the lawyers.

Now, will someone please tell Kenneth Starr to pack up his $40-million boxes and go home. He has done more than enough damage to this country.

T. KETA HODGSON

Los Angeles

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My husband has a saying, “All fixes being equal, justice will prevail.” It nauseates me that our knight in tarnished armor in the White House has slithered away again and again. His moral character is so lacking that the highest post in the land should not be his.

TERRY MARTIN

Fallbrook

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The Jones suit should have been thrown out a long time ago. If all of us, women as well as men, start filing a lawsuit every time somebody makes a sexual advance to us, imagine what a circus. Whether or not Clinton made the advance is not the point. The point is Paula Jones was an adult capable of deciding whether she should meet a man in a hotel room just because he asked her to. She did go, but on her own free will. She wasn’t raped or traumatized by the encounter, didn’t lose a job or raises or promotions. Her suit was ridiculous.

HAO LE

Thousand Oaks

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Please tell me this means we won’t have to read any more about Jones and her fellow bedbug, Susan “Hey, Put That Camera In My Face!” Carpenter-McMillan in your newspaper.

LOU COHAN

Cypress

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It is my fervent hope and prayer that the leaders of the next generation will possess half the courage and intelligence exhibited by the extremely Honorable Judge Wright.

LEE W. RAWLES

Claremont