My guess is, it will. Bill Clinton spit on the law, but sometimes spit is very useful as polish. Americans like equality under the law and they will use this episode, I hope, to burnish that principle rather than bury it. But there is the issue of class and integrity. Neither are equally distributed in society.
Some people have it.
In this last year, the president demonstrated that he doesn t. Most, and I do mean most, of his defenders exhausted their supply of integrity to dangerously low levels to defend either a man who didn t deserve it or a cause they manufactured out of so much sophistry and chutzpah. Some just ran out of class entirely, like Alan Dershowitz and William Ginsburg. I think Greg Craig is probably an honorable man. Charles Ruff too.