Clinton pardoned himself. This is why they call him "Slick".
Judge Susan Weber Wright, partly based on the "irrelevant" Monica Lewinsky line of questioning and lying by Bubba, originally dismissed the Paula Jones lawsuit as "without merit". That gave Clinton and his cheerleaders months of "I told you so's!"
Later, Clinton finally is interrogated by the Ken Starr's team and has to admit the affair and that he lied under oath to a Federal Judge... This starts the impeachment bandwagaon.
One of the impeachment charges is "lying under oath" and "perjury" for Bubba's testimony in the Paula Jones deposition... but some Congressmen refuse to vote out that article of impeachment because "Judge Wright had not ruled that Clinton had lied under oath..." At the time, Judge Wright was "reviewing the record". This is one of the articles of impeachment that is NOT voted out by the House.
Judge Wright goes into hibernation while the House impeaches the Slick One... She doesn't do anything leading up to the Senate Trial... The Dems make that a SHAM trial and the Senate Republicans don't lift a finger to support the House Manager's case -- pretty much everyone pushing the problem down the road (while Usama Bin Laden is preparing for his grand day with Bubba and the USA thoroughly pre-occupied). The impeachment trial ends and Bubba escapes.
Now, after the important matter of impeachment is safely in the rear-view mirror, Judge Wright emerges and rules in favor of Paula Jones. Before the matter comes back to her for re-litigation, Bubba's lawyers settle for $850,000 -- does anyone remember the irony of Bubba settling a lawsuit that had been dismissed and the Clinton apologists saying: well, this is just putting all this behind us.
Finally, Judge Wright (Clinton's former student) cites Clinton for perjury... long after it could have done any good for consideration by Congress during impeachment.
In retrospect, it is amazing we have a Justice System left after 8 years of Clinton... So many people did the wrong thing during those 8 years -- it will take decades to clean-out the stench of the Clinton-Reno legacy.