Opinion by Eugene Robinson: Ken Starr was more than a partisan hack. He was a tragic figure.
If you believe Starr was right and had no choice but to plow forward with his investigation of Bill Clinton on the grounds that Clinton had abused his power over women he worked with, then it is logically impossible to believe the examination of Trump should have been more restrained. Trump’s attempt to extort that political “favor” from Zelensky threatened U.S. security — as Russia’s brutal invasion subsequently demonstrated.
Starr’s defenders could argue that the experience of one impeachment led him to believe in the inadvisability of the next. “Like war, impeachment is hell,” he said during Trump’s first trial before the Senate, at which Trump — like Clinton before him — was acquitted.
Starr was, before he gained such notoriety in the Clinton investigation, a central figure in the conservative legal world who was seen as a likely nominee someday for the Supreme Court. Indeed, two current members of the court worked for him at various times — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., during the Reagan administration, and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, during the independent counsel probe.
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