Clinton Ruling

* Re “Judge Finds Clinton in Contempt in the Jones Case,” April 13: U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright is the same jurist who incarcerated Susan McDougal for civil contempt without benefit of a fair trial. She now imposes a civil contempt charge against the president without benefit of a fair trial.

McDougal was acquitted of obstruction of justice (April 13); the jury deadlocked on the contempt charges. That verdict speaks volumes about the wisdom and integrity of Wright’s verdict. Whatever happened to due process, innocence before guilt and judgment by your peers? I hope the president chooses to appeal this decision.

DALE BENNETT

Riverside

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* So it took a lifetime-tenured federal district judge in Arkansas, indeed, one of Bill Clinton’s former students, to finally summon up enough courage to state the truth that our politically scared senators and members of Congress could not: Clinton, intentionally and without shame, lied under oath for an improper purpose. Not that his lies are news, but perhaps the rule of law is not as dead as some have suggested it may be.

Too bad that our politicians did not have the guts to remove the “great liar.” Instead, he remains in office, sending our soldiers off to a war that has not been adequately explained, planned or analyzed.

REBECCA MOCCIARO

Los Angeles

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* Of course Clinton is in contempt of court. He was forced to answer personal questions about his personal life that are of no concern to anyone other than his family and God--all because of a politically motivated lawsuit which by judicial decision had no merit. Who wouldn’t have contempt for the “justice” system?

BROOKS W. WILSON

Fallbrook

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* My understanding is that during the discredited Paula Jones lawsuit, Wright threw out testimony relating to the Monica Lewinsky-Clinton matter as being irrelevant to the primary case. How then is it that anything said, truthful or not, about the Lewinsky matter can be construed to be “obstruction of justice”?

ROBERT E. NOFER

Pasadena