Today in Supreme Court History: January 8, 1973

1/8/1973: Trial begins for seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic headquarters at Watergate hotel. The break-in would give rise to U.S. v. Nixon.

The Watergate Complex

 

 

Comments

[DaivdBehar]

Watergate was just another lawyer gotcha. They nitpick. Anyone can be nitpicked and sent to prison for years and fined $millions for infractions of bullshit rules. The rules are in bad faith and have no external validity. The nitpicking and the gotchas are in bad faith. Those should be criminalized. The penalty should be the lash. We are sick of this vile, toxic occupation, causing 10 times the damage as organized crime.

[Queen Amalthea]

Authoritarian nutjob has no problem with breaking and entering to subvert elections.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

[Frank Drackman]

do you have Bitch Tits?

[DaivdBehar]

Ironic statement by one in denial of the chromosomal genotype in every human cell of his body. Should not be calling anyone a nutjob.

[Krychek_2]

So Daivd, just to be clear, you don’t consider burglary for the purpose of subverting an election to be a real crime?

[Dan Schiavetta]

That is one huge hotel.

I bet their vending machines have both types of Snickers. And the microwave burritos have real chicken in them.

[Krychek_2]

If Trump had had Nixon's Congress, he'd have been out of office six months after taking office. And if Nixon had had Trump's Congress, he'd have finished his second term.

[Dan Schiavetta]

True. Says a lot about how Republicans have changed.

[John F. Carr]

Modern Democrats would be more horrified at the rude language caught on tape than the policies Nixon pushed.

[Dan Schiavetta]

That's true, though the "liberal" things Nixon did were usually half-measures designed to defang the opposition.

[Krychek_2]

Don’t forget Nixon supported national health care. Ted Kennedy kept it from becoming law because he thought the Nixon version didn’t go far enough. If Kennedy had seen it as a first step and allowed it to pass we’d probably have national single payer by now.

[Frank Drackman]

EPA, pulled out of Vietnam, appointed the Surpremes who found a Constitutional right to abortion in a Penumbra, Gerald Ford, who was so awful, he lost to Jimmuh Cartuh, despite Peace/Booming Economy(well as much as you could boom in the 70's), and just for Bar Bets, the only POTUS not to have an execution occur during his term(I know POTUS's don't control executions, it's still a cool fact)

[David Nieporent]

and just for Bar Bets, the only POTUS not to have an execution occur during his term

Really? Were the executioners really busy in March 1841?