[Bratch]

I’m a first amendment soldier.

However, folks using the argument that actions taken today will somehow lead to unrestrained persecution by the left “when the pendulum swings” must have been in a coma over the last ten years.

No matter what conservative administrations do, if/when the left retakes power, they will use every government entity available to harass and persecute their perceived political enemies.

[CharlesOConnell]

First Amendment Soldier

The reaction of the French to Watergate was interesting:

"Of course, when you get in power, you persecute your political opponents."

There were 6 liberal judges assigned to get Nixon en banc. The needn't have succeeded in getting Nixon, because he had sound constitutional grounds for the defense that he didn't know what the plumbers were doing—they were CIA—and didn't authorize it.

Four top legal scholars jointly researched the question, "Are Presidents responsible for the mis-deeds of their subordinates?"

They found that Presidents are not.

Hillary was dispatched by the Senate Watergate Committee to receive the legal scholars' finding.

She "disappeared" the opinion. Then she was fired by the Committee, "for cause".

But the scholars were so proud of their work, they paid to have it published.

That was 4 months after Nixon was scared into resigning.

But if he had fought, he would have won.