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Investigations & Oversight blog
United States v. Nixon and What the Court Really Said About Executive PrivilegeBoth parties quote the 1974 tapes case. The ruling is narrower than the slogan, and it protects the presidency more than most people think.Watergate Day by Day and the Republicans Who Told Nixon It Was OverWatergate was ended by Republicans who put the law above their own president, and the dated record shows exactly when and how they did it.McCarthy, the 1954 Censure and the Republicans Who Said EnoughThe party that rightly took communism seriously had to decide when a colleague's methods became the problem, and the answer still teaches how to run oversight.How supporters can help a minority party between elections, step by stepRepublicans will be the minority in Congress from January 3, 2027. What a supporter can do in the quiet years, from calls to hearings to the local paper.What the Minority Party in Congress Can Still Do When It Doesn't Run the FloorRepublicans will be the minority in both chambers from January 3, 2027. Here are the tools the minority keeps, step by step, and their limits.Howard Baker asked what the president knew and why oversight is conservativeA Tennessee Republican who began as Nixon's friend became the Senate's most credible questioner, and his record shows why oversight is a conservative duty.Teapot Dome and What a Party Owes Its Voters When Its Own People FailA Republican cabinet officer went to prison for taking a bribe. What the party did next is the measure of what a party owes the people who vote for it.How Impeachment Works, Step by Step, From the House Floor to the Senate TrialImpeachment is a political process with constitutional steps. Here is who does what, how many votes it takes, and what history says about the outcome.Watergate in twelve dates and the one that finally ended itNixon was not undone by a burglary but by a cover-up, and the twelve dates show how Republicans in Congress decided how it ended.Johnson's Vetoes, the Overrides and the Impeachment That Fell One Vote ShortThe first presidential impeachment pitted a Republican Congress against a Democrat on the Union ticket. The story, the one-vote verdict and the lesson.