A federal judge in Washington, D.C., delivered a Richard Nixon and Watergate-centered history lesson before finding that there was no path to reinstating eight fired inspectors general to their posts following President Donald Trump's firing-by-email spree days after his second inauguration.

The Wednesday ruling from U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Joe Biden appointee, began by recounting the fallout of Nixon "resigning in disgrace," as "a public insistent on change and […] a legislature scrambling to shore up public trust" led to the enactment in 1978 of the Inspector General Act (IGA), which aimed to empower independent government watchdogs to "combat bureaucratic waste, fraud, and abuse" through oversight of the executive branch and across government agencies.

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