It is undeniably fitting that this account should turn on the cliché of the scarlet letter. For somehow Starr’s role as the nation’s parson always comes back around to sex.

medium.com/@judihershman/…
Perhaps his fascination was heightened early on by his involvement in the Packwood Diaries scandal

apnews.com/article/394796…
but most notably was his 1998 pursuit of Bill Clinton over his sexual relationship with a White House intern, which was bookended by his recent impeachment foray, this time defending an adulterous President, who lies about so much more sin than that.
texastribune.org/2020/01/17/ken…
And in between he zealously took up the cause of a Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault, Jeffrey Epstein, a Baylor University football player accused of rape and a schoolteacher in suburban VA found guilty of molesting 5 young school girls
cnn.com/2018/08/20/pol…
Ken Starr, the special prosecutor who investigated the Whitewater matter during the Clinton presidency, wrote letters on Kloman’s behalf.
washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fo…
And even still, in 2021, he published his latest book extolling the virtues of intersecting religion and the judiciary.

Forget the separation of church and state! That’s not what the founding fathers intended according to him.
"I was alone in a conference room collecting materials when Kavanaugh entered. He began berating me and invading my personal space in a deranged fury that sent me into flight around the table."
It was only when I saw his snarling “refutation” of Blasey Ford that I realized that his almost feral belligerence in that conference room more than 20 years earlier had not been a one-off.
It's the loudest ones who are guilty.

Starr had stepped out from the shadows of the grounds of the inn where we were staying and called me over. This was the beginning of a fond, consensual affair. Though I can’t be sure Tim O’Brien could see that Starr had taken my hand and
placed it on his crotch, there can be little doubt that he saw the kiss Starr had initiated. And when I expressed to Ken my horror at having been observed, he had said, “It’s O.K., he understands.”

Meaning, this wasn't the first time Starr cheated on his wife. Pious my ass.
It was a an interview I watched in 2020 with one of Baylor’s aggrieved accusers that helped me understand how I could have been blind for so long to the pattern of misogyny coursing through Starr’s career.
cnn.com/videos/politic…
It is my fervent hope that every time Ken Starr enters a church, when he bows his head to pray, that he sees the faces of all the children and women who had been harmed and that he could have helped, but did not.
And perhaps one day the prophecy that Kavanaugh uttered in his
confirmation hearings — “What goes around comes around” — will boomerang back on our mutual mentor as well before he harms us any further.

politifact.com/article/2018/o…
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