Arlen “Scottish Law” Specter’s legal musings aren’t typically so influential. Who can forget that during the Clinton impeachment trial in the Senate, he applied foreign law to the question at hand (before looking to foreign authorities was cool!). He explained at the time, ”I have gone back to Scottish law where there are three verdicts: guilty, not guilty, and not proved. I am not prepared to say on this record that President Clinton is not guilty. But I am certainly not prepared to say that he is guilty. There are precedents for a Senator voting present. I hope that I will be accorded the opportunity to vote not proved. . . ”