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The issue of sexual offenses in U.S. politics, including allegations, convictions, and disciplinary actions.
There are no comprehensive, publicly available statistics that directly compare (, , ) across ; existing academic work and journalistic counts look at related but distinct measures—self-reported victi...
Available reporting and academic studies do not provide a reliable, comprehensive count that shows one political party definitively "has the most sex offenders," and the evidence instead points to dif...
are the principal federal tools for prosecuting law‑enforcement officers accused of sexual violence: prosecutors most commonly rely on the “color of law” criminal statute, 18 C. § 242, supplemented si...
’s lawsuits against have pushed into sharp relief how civil law can hold powerful public figures accountable for both alleged sexual misconduct and the public denials that follow, producing trial ruli...
Three kinds of trackers dominate reporting on against lawmakers: journalist-curated databases (notably ’s state-lawmakers tally), civics data efforts such as ’s “Legislator Misconduct” database, and a...
Available public datasets and encyclopedic categories suggest a modest, easily-cited number of U.S. politicians convicted of sexual offenses, but no single authoritative tally covering "all elected of...