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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: zax who wrote (539325)9/25/2025 11:11:59 PM
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Several prosecutors have resigned or just flat out refused without resigning to follow Trump's order to prosecute Comey. This is a little reminiscent of the Saturday Night Massacre which eventually led to Nixon's impeachment and resignation. For those too young to remember it:

The "Saturday Night Massacre" was a series of resignations over the dismissal of special prosecutor Archibald Cox that took place in the United States Department of Justice during the Watergate scandal in 1973. [1] The events followed the refusal by Cox to drop a subpoena for the Nixon White House tapes at President Richard Nixon's request.

During a single evening on Saturday, October 20, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Archibald Cox; Richardson refused and resigned effective immediately. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; Ruckelshaus refused, and also resigned. Nixon then ordered the third-most-senior official at the Justice Department, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox. Bork carried out the dismissal as Nixon asked. [2] Bork stated that he intended to resign afterward, but was persuaded by Richardson and Ruckelshaus to stay on for the good of the Justice Department. [3] [4]

The political and public reactions to Nixon's actions were negative and highly damaging to the president. The impeachment process against Nixon began ten days later, on October 30, 1973. Leon Jaworski was appointed as the new special prosecutor on November 1, 1973, [5] and on November 14, 1973, United States District Judge Gerhard Gesell ruled that the dismissal had been illegal. [6] [7]

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