Perjury is Serious

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has characterized perjury as some sort of technicality, but of course perjury is serious, and one reason is that if you commit perjury, then you have obviously done something that you don’t want to tell the truth about. So you lie. Perjury is not an isolated act. It has its roots in the original infraction that brought you into court. And while a Grand Jury may not know, or be able to find out exactly what you did in the first place, they know it was bad enough, at least in your own mind, for you to lie about it. A lie is connected to the reason for the lie. And perjury really is serious.