constitution

United States v. Nixon Ruled that presidents cannot withhold information from a grand jury proceeding. United States v. Nixon is the Supreme Court's major ruling on the matter of executive privilege. The privilege would allow the president to refuse legislative or judicial requests for information. This case arose out of the Watergate scandal and the additional legislative and judicial inquiries into the matter. In addition to the investigations made by the Ervin Committee in the …

…place, was dismissed. Thus the Court was precluded from another opportunity to consider the free press issues contained in the Pentagon Papers complication. Similarly, an attempt to prevent publication of an article in The Progressive about the manufacture of a hydrogen bomb was resolved prior to the matter reaching the Supreme Court. Bibliography www.supct.law.cornell.pdu www.dir.yahoo.com www.uua.alaska.pdu www.gooddale.htm#pentagon www.usiang.usis.usemb.se