Should Al Franken resign? This is one of those cases where I see both sides. His "crimes" are small ones and I think it's unfair (in some cases, deliberately so) to lump him in with pedophiles and rapists or even Harvey Weinstein. And it's true that Republicans calling for his head are mostly of the mind that nothing should be done about the far greater number of complaints about Donald Trump and the far greater offenses of Roy Moore. Some of those points and others are made in this essay by Joe Conason who says Franken should not resign.
Against this, you have people like Michelle Goldberg who think he should…and I don't find those arguments without merit. The ones I think are without merit — and they're on both sides — are from the folks who are just playing for partisan advantage. But yeah, what he did was wrong in a couple of ways including the fact that it showed bad judgment.
So I dunno. Let's see what the ethics investigation says. And let's see if anything is done by the longer list of women who have more serious complaints about D.J. Trump.