Bill O'Neill, Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, citing a "national feeding frenzy" on decades-old sexual misconduct, alluded to his sexual past with a Facebook posting, a past alleged to have involved intimacy with some fifty women. Given his current position as a member of the Ohio Supreme Court, Justice O'Neill might simply have called for a statute of limitations bar on consideration of allegations of sexual misconduct.  That is to say, if the allegations could not be brought to court as barred by the statute of limitations, they should not be considered for any extra-legal purpose – including removal from public office of an elected official, for example.  O'Neill apparently came forward in response to sex-groping allegations against Sen. Al Franken – not the allegations against Roy Moore, who, as it happens, twice served on the Alabama Supreme Court.  Now that the public has...(Read Full Post)