Margolis: Sexual conduct purge has its own dangers

Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, and Al Franken, D-Minn., at a hearing. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger(Jon Margolis writes political columns for VTDigger.)
On further review, as they say in the National Football League, Sen. Patrick Leahy says he shouldn’t have urged Sen. Al Franken to resign after all.
“I have stood for due process,” said Vermont’s senior senator, without fully explaining why he did not stand there in the matter of his Minnesota colleague, acc