The Ruined Career

I think Lindsay gets it about right about here.

…And I should repeat it has nothing to do with me thinking that the Mann Act is good legislation. But 1)if you want this kind of legislation repealed you want more rich white men to be charged under it, not fewer; the fact that powerful people assume that this kind of legislation won’t apply to them is exactly what keeps it on the books to be arbitrarily applied against other people, and 2)I would have more sympathy for Spitzer if he didn’t have a record of putting sex workers in jail. I can’t see any colorable argument for why the laws should apply to then and not him.