United States Vs. Nixon1974

By: Michelle Parungao and Elijah

Crawford

Summary A United States federal judge named Walter Nixon was convicted of committing forgery before a grand jury, but didn’t resign from office even after he had been accused. Nixon was impeached by the United States House of Representatives, and the matter was referred to the United States Senate for a vote on Nixon's removal. The Senate made a committee to hear the evidence against Nixon, and then report to the body as a whole. The Senate then heard the report of the committee and voted to remove Nixon from office. Nixon contended that this did not meet the constitutional requirement of Article I that the case be "tried by the Senate."

Issue was…

Nixon was part of the Watergate scandal, when someone broke into the Watergate hotel to change the votes. So Nixon won in 1973 but the storm clouds were building and the nation was consumed by the Watergate scandal.

Nixon in supreme court

The Decision Less than three weeks after oral arguments, the Court issued its decision. The justices struggled to write an opinion that all eight could agree to. The stakes were so high, in that the tapes most likely contained evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the President and his men, that they wanted no dissent. All contributed to the opinion and Chief Justice Burger delivered the unanimous decision. After ruling that the Court could indeed resolve the matter and that Jaworski had proven a "sufficient likelihood that each of the tapes contains conversations relevant to the offenses charged in the indictment," the Court went to the main issue of executive privilege. The Court rejected Nixon's claim to an "absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances."

Nixon resigned sixteen days later, on August 9, 1974. 8–0 ruling against President Richard Nixon

Work cited

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