A citizen lies to Congress and gets a term in jail. A congressman lies to us and gets another term in office.
But if this summer of jurisprudence has taught us one thing, it should be that justice is an emotional hypothesis whereas the law is more objective. Everyone in this country should be thankful for that, because it always should be the precise application of law that distinguishes between conviction and acquittal in a criminal case -- not getting justice.
It doesn't matter what endless talking heads personally think of Roger Clemens. It doesn't matter if the public overwhelmingly believes the account of Clemens' former trainer: that the seven-time Cy Young Award winner willingly and knowingly used illegally obtained performance-enhancing drugs. It doesn't matter if common sense suggests that an already admittedly broke federal government shouldn't spend millions on the prosecution of a ballplayer simply because he might not have been exactly forthright in answering Congress' questions.
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