The nomination of Mr. Patel, 44, has upended the post-Watergate tradition of picking nonpartisan F.B.I ... The Judiciary Committee’s leaders set the partisan tone of the hearing in their ...
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Trump Won His War on the Justice Department
The once-independent agency has been forced to embrace a change of mission—serve the president’s exclusive interests, and ...
We became students of success, advised to set goals of a bigger house and more expensive cars, as if wishing alone could make ...
The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday afternoon amid chaos and backlash, was the brainchild of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s pick to direct the ...
The governance reforms after Watergate no longer apply ... campaign finance and free speech have been set by the president or the justices. It was the Supreme Court which decided that presidents ...
In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...
The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.
He said the Justice Department established norms that differentiate what the department can do and what it should do following the 1972 Watergate ... Related Trump's AG pick Pam Bondi: 'There ...
That was the core of the degradation of the rule of law embodied in the Watergate scandal ... The precedent being set here is that no matter the harm caused or evidence of criminality, if that ...
At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...