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Apr 1, 2013 · And the word and, after Mr. Chief Justice, was long considered optional. When President Richard Nixon addressed the court on June 23, 1969, he said: “Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the Court.”
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Jul 14, 2022 · To show his respect, Nixon wore the traditional cutaways worn by government attorneys arguing cases. When he approached the podium to speak he opened his remarks with “Mr. Chief Justice and May It Please the Court” as if he was opening an oral argument.
Jul 24, 2024 · On July 24, 1974, a unanimous Court (with Justice Rehnquist not taking part due to a prior role in the Nixon administration) ruled against the President. Chief Justice Warren Burger said that the President didn’t have an absolute, unqualified privilege to withhold information.
Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court.
Jul 8, 2024 · Richard Nixon was whether the president and his closest aides had conspired to obstruct justice in the Watergate break-in coverup. Just sixteen days later, the Court concluded that, while Nixon could claim a limited privilege for some confidential communications, that privilege could be overcome by the overarching public interest in prosecuting ...
Jan 27, 2016 · Upon receiving a claim of privilege from the Chief Executive, it became the further duty of the District Court to treat the subpoenaed material as presumptively privileged and to require the Special Prosecutor to demonstrate that the Presidential material was “essential to the justice of the case.” …We affirm the order of the District ...
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A unanimous Court concluded that neither the separation of powers nor a generalized need for confidential communications supported an absolute privilege. The Court set a standard of “demonstrated specific need” for enforcement of a federal criminal subpoena to the President.
