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At the time the amendment was enacted, it was fairly clear that the drafters and the public had a broad construction in mind, for the Thirteenth Amendment became the constitutional foundation in 1866 for the first Civil Rights Act—indeed, the Act that is still used today to prosecute those who, like the police who beat up Rodney King, engage in racially motivated deprivations of civil rights.
The LAT lead is El Nino rainstorms that have killed six in California, while the paper's off-lead is the news that Kenneth Starr will prosecute White House officials if he believes they have spread false information about his staff.
Other efforts to prosecute Nazi war criminals--from the apprehension of Adolf Eichmann in 1960 to the ongoing efforts of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the U.S.
If it's OK for the commander in chief to hit on women in the office, why should we prosecute a man so much farther down the military chain of command?
(The general view is that perjury in civil suits isn't easy to prosecute, especially if the suit has been dismissed, as Jones' was.)