That now-iconic question was asked by Senator Howard Baker, vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, to President Nixon’s White House counsel John Dean on June 29, 1973. Forty-two years ...

In Congress during Watergate, the Senate Select Committee led by Sam Ervin diligently pursued public hearings to ensure that ...

The debate over this balance took a new direction when Sam Ervin, the former chair of the Senate Watergate committee, proposed legislation to turn the DOJ into an independent agency. Setting aside ...

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) slammed the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) attempts to upend the federal government as “the most serious constitutional crisis” since Watergate.

It was not the prevailing attitude, as I remember, toward the hearings of the Senate Watergate Committee or the impeachment debate at the House Judiciary Committee (on whose staff Clinton served ...