John Sirica

Uh, network of career politicians, the Senate committee, and the special prosecutor's office to realign political power.

He asserts that trial judges, most notably Judge John Sirica...

I remember him being a big judge in that.

Watergate was the first thing that I noticed in the news.

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... a break-in happened.

Uh, so, uh, he says, uh, the Judge John Sirica and prosecutors like Leon Jaworski, I remember that name, held forbidden secret ex parte meetings to coordinate strategies against the defense and predetermine the outcome of trials.

Shepherd claims that prosecutors suppressed evidence favorable to the defendants, lied to grand juries and congressional committees, and delayed or manipulated indictments.

And he was kind of made for, you know, conspiratorial narratives in media, like the man of Liddy.

I mean, after the White House plumbers were arrested um a particularly ambitious judge named john sirica colloquial colloquially anonymously known as maximum john because he was uh very much like a rockefeller laws or a judge who was known for his absolutely draconian sentences um he was threatening to slap uh the white house plumbers with life sentences like with parole but just the same if they refuse to turn state's evidence, that's quite literally insane.

You know, to say, well, you're gonna lock people up for an amount of, you know, 20 years to life for a petty burglary, you know, regardless of the implications vis-a-vis a sitting presidential administration.

I mean, things like this, you know, that doesn't just smack a malicious prosecution, but I mean, that's an obvious matter of judicial overreach, you know, and it goes to show you kind of at every level, this scandal, if we can call it a scandal and not, you know, a coup, which is kind of more probably what it was.