Sore at losing the Bork nomination, he ignores the defection of key Republican Senators, and says the whole thing was a Democratic political "lynching."

They had denounced the trial as a racist, political lynching.

"I feel very obliged to make this comparison in response to the continuing revisionist history offered up to justify what was little more than a political lynching."

The battle over Judge Bork, he said, "was not a political lynching, it was as thorough an analysis of constitutional law as there could be."

Her methods have included the so-called rupture tactics Mr. Verges became famous for, treating a trial like a political lynching, turning her back on judges and sometimes walking out.

It's like a political lynching.

You can't defend what Clinton did, but this whole thing is just a political lynching.

What it looks like is a political lynching by the democrats.

"This hearing is about the political lynching of Franklin Raines," Mr. Clay said.

Mr. Barry, who under law would have to resign if convicted of a felony, said the indictment was "a continuation of the political lynching" being conducted by the Justice Department.