What was the Court’s decision in United States v. Nixon (1974) and how did the decision uphold the idea that even the President of the United States is not above the nation’s laws?
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United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court.
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In United States v. Nixon, the Court ruled that President Nixon had to turn over tapes of conversations he had secretly recorded with his advisors to a committee that was investigating his role in a criminal break-in. Nixon had cited executive privilege as the reason he refused to turn over the tapes. However, the Court ruled that executive privilege does not give the president the right to withhold evidence from an ongoing criminal investigation. In such cases, the president cannot “hide behind” claims of executive privilege but must comply with subpoenas just as all other citizens do.
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