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[blackhawks]

My take on the matter from my post on another board......

And every SCOTUS member who argues against precedent will need to come up with something extraordinary to justify their position. After all NIXON WAS a sitting president and it didn't count for shit.

I see a 7-2 vote with Alito and Thomas dissenting, just because.....assholes.

The judges will be presented the following by their clerks.

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/anniversary-of-united-states-v-nixon

Nixon argued that the concept of executive privilege gave him the power to withhold sensitive information, such as the tapes, from other government branches in order to maintain confidential communications within the executive branch and to secure the national interest.

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.

“We conclude that when the ground for asserting privilege as to subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice. The generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial,” Burger said.