Roy's call to investigate people on the left is a page out of McCarthy playbook

In a September news release, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Hays County, announced that he has asked U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ...
Tucson Weekly

Army-McCarthy hearings

During Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts in the 1950s, he decided to go after the U.S. Army. The army hired Joseph Welch as its lawyer to make its case during what is known as the ...
NBC Connecticut

Before Comey, Take a Look at Past High-Stakes Congressional Hearings

This city knows how to do big hearings — even Titanic ones. Dramatic congressional hearings are something of a Washington art form, a rite of democracy carefully crafted for the cameras. Suspense is ...
Law

America on the Brink: Where Is Our Joseph Welch, Esq.?

Army Counsel Joseph Welch looks angry and waves a hand as he demands that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.), not try to serve as both witness and judge in the McCarthy-Army row, June 16, 1954. Their ...
LancasterOnline

LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion editors seem to be engaged in a version of McCarthyism [letter]

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” This famous question was posed to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954 by attorney Joseph Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings. It is widely credited with helping ...