Have Friday Nights replaced Saturday for 'Massacres'? Trump's Stealthy Attempts to Undermine Justice

June 23, 2020  |  The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement

Some still remember waking to the news following one fateful evening – October 20, 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon, embroiled in the Watergate scandal, ordered the U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire the special prosecutor appointed to investigate the events. Richardson refused and resigned in protest. Nixon then went to the Deputy Attorney General, William Ruckelshaus, who also refused and resigned. Nixon, having lost both of his Attorneys General, ordered the Solicitor General of the United States, Robert Bork, to fire the special prosecutor. After being sworn in as acting Attorney General, Bork did just that. This historic news, which broke the next day, quickly was dubbed the “Saturday Night Massacre” – and President Nixon’s popularity would never recover. Within a year, he would resign. [...]

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