U.S.+v.+Nixon+(R2)

U.S. v Nixon (Mr. Rieck period 2) Dan Jena and Chris Casson In 1972, five burglars were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotl and office complex in Washington D.C. Media and government investigation of the break-in revealed that burglars were associated with the campaign to re-elect Nioxn. The inquiries also revealed that the president and his aides had probably abused their power in other ways as well.

The main issue in the case was Exectuive Privilege, discovery and inspection. The major question was Does the U.S president present a process an "executive privilege" of unqualified immunity from judicial process?

The decision that the court made was that no, the court held that neither the doctrine or seperation of powers, nor the gereralized need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain absolute, unqualified presidential privilege, the court granted that there was a limited executive privilege on areas of military of diplomatic affairs, but gave preference to "the fundamental demands of due process of law on the far administration of justice" Therefore the president must obey the subpoena and produce the tapes and documents. Nixon resigned shortly after the release of the tapes.

The case also made a point that just because you are the presidet, that doesn't mean that you can do whatever you want.[] [|www.landmarkcases.org]