[tootie]

We are still paying the price for Watergate. The Saturday Night Massacre was Nixon's attempt to use his executive authority to prevent his investigation. The loyalist who ended up being his third AG of the day was Robert Bork. First Ford declined to prosecute, then Reagan nominates Bork to the SC and suddenly SC appointments become combative partisan affairs

[zeroonetwothree]

I mean even Washington had a SC nominee rejected. It goes back pretty far.