I attended UCLA School of Law from August 1990 to May 1993. I was chief articles editor of the UCLA Law Review and then moved on to clerk for a brilliant (I add: most brilliant) federal appeals court judge, the…
Fifty years ago, March 1, 1974, marked the beginning of the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency. That’s the day the grand jury’s indictment was made public, naming seven of Nixon’s top aides in the alleged cover-up of those responsible for…
Lately, I have written and focused on the history of Watergate because I find it helpful in understanding American politics and power today. After living through Watergate, President Donald Trump has the benefit of having watched how the establishment’s legal-political-money-media lynch…
In 1972, President Richard Nixon won 60.7 percent of the popular vote (an 18 million vote margin) and carried every state but Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He had previously spent four years in the House of Representatives, two…
Watergate was a vivid and compelling drama for most Americans. But after a half-century of study, it is clear that no liberal Democrat would have been driven from the White House under the same circumstances. It is also clear that…
Recent rulings by two federal judges in the District of Columbia illustrate how politically biased its entire judiciary has become. Former Chief Judge Beryl Howell concluded that Donald Trump had not been sufficiently forthcoming in producing documents sought in a…
Hunter Biden has been indicted in Los Angeles on nine counts of tax charges and faces prison terms of up to 17 years. These are in addition to gun charges filed earlier in Delaware. It is interesting to contrast his…
It’s been 50 years since the 18½ minute gap was discovered in the White House tape of June 20, 1972, and we are no closer to resolving its origins than we were during the Watergate scandal. To put it into…
The 50th Anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre passed last month, with C-SPAN’s American History TV hosting a panel featuring prominent figures from that era, all happily reminiscing how the event “set off a chain of political and legal events…
Without popular support, no democracy can win a war, even if its armed forces are stronger. Vietnam taught this lesson. Though American arms suffered many casualties, and some battles were touch and go, in the end, our forces were unbeaten….