POLS 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Watergate Scandal, Fifth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
22 Oct 2016
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Nixon v united states: watergate scandal. Nixon refused to release all his tapes, and when he did, he only released them in partiallity. Does the claim of executive privelege damage the precedent set by the 5th amendmet, which ensures due process: court ruled that nuxon had to surrender the tapes. Said that an absolute executive privelege would interfere with the judicial branch"s duty. 6th amendment grants the right to defendents to be confronted with the witnesses against him and to have complusory process to obtain witnesses in his facor. Hollingsworth v perry: gay and lesbian couple filed a lawsuit against state officials that enforced proposition 8. State officials said they couldnt dedend it, so official proponents of the measure intervened to defend it. Does the epc of the 14th amendment prohibit the state of. California from defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman: ruling: roberts delivered the majority opinon 5-4.
