U.S.+v++Nixon

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== In No vember 1972 Richard Nixon won his second term as president of the United States. Towards the end of Nixon’s second term, a group of burglars broke into the Democratic Party campaign headquarters in Washington’s Watergate Complex. What seemed to be a small news story expanded as reporter’s uncovered clues leading to some high government officials. The administration of Nixon denied all wrong action, but it soon became noticeable that they tried to cover up the burglary, and connections that might include the president. He was under congressional and public pressure, so he appointed his own prosecutor. Soon after, they found secret taped conversations of the Oval Office. The prosecutor Nixon appointed, filed a subpoena to the president requiring him to produce voice overs, tapes, and documents relating to identified meetings between the president and other officials. President Nixon released edited transcripts of these conversations. Although the district court denied this motion, the president appealed and the case was quickly brought to the higher Supreme Court. There were two key issues the court had dealt with. First was the power of the Judiciary as the arbiter of the constitution and the claim of the president and the name of his executive privileges. Chief Justice Burger turned to the relative case rulings of Marbury V. Madison. Marbury V. Madison (1803) was the court’s first significant decision which refused to order that an appointed judge be allowed to take his office because to do so, would be overstep his powers. They reaffirmed the rulings of this case and sought out that no person, not even the president of the United States is above the law. On August 5th, 1974 the transcripts of about 64 tape recordings were released to the court, including the one that was particularly damaged in regard to the cover up of the Watergate Scandal. A couple days later, his support in congress was almost completely lost, then soon after Nixon announced his resignation. == present day. __**
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= = = = =Comparing US. v. Nixon and Marbury v. Madison=

**__US v Nixon__**
**Issue** Whether the United States violated President Nixon’s constitutional right of executive power, his need for confidentiality, his need to maintain the separation of powers, and his executive privilege to immunity from any court demands for information and evidence. By an 8-0 vote, the Court decided that President Nixon must hand over the specific tapes and documents to the Special Prosecutor. Presidential power is not above the law. It cannot protect evidence that may be used in a criminal trial.
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__**Marbury v. Madison**__ **Issue** Whether the Supreme Court of the United States has the power, under Article III, Section 2, of the Constitution, to interpret the constitutionality of a law or statute passed by Congress. The Court decided that Marbury’s request for a writ of mandamus was based on a law passed by Congress that the Court held to be unconstitutional. The Court decided unanimously that the federal law contradicted the Constitution, and since the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, it must reign supreme. Through this case, Chief Justice John Marshall established the power of judicial review: the power of the Court not only to interpret the constitutionality of a law or statute but also to carry out the process and enforce its decision.
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James D. St. Clair, the Boston lawyer who represented President Richard M. Nixon.