The country faced a Constitutional crisis during Watergate. He stood firm for the rule of law. As the chief judge of the federal court in Washington D.C. in 1972, John J. Sirica took on the trial of burglars arrested while planting electronic bugs in the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex. Who had sent them? The defendants weren't saying and President Nixon disavowed any knowledge of the matter. Sirica came to the law...