Nixon appeals to Supreme Court over presidential tapes
Former President Richard Nixon asks the Supreme Court to review a law transferring custody of his papers and 5,000 hours of tapes to the government. He calls the act an unprecedented intrusion by Congress and argues it would allow complete control of a president's confidential materials. The case centers on the Presidential Records Preservation Act and whether Congress can seize a president's private files. The court won’t hear the case until October, with responses due within 50 days.
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Trial in jail clothes OKd by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that a prisoner may be tried in jail clothes if he does not object, a 2 vote decision requiring the defendant to invoke or abandon the right. Dissenters Brennan and Marshall called the test dangerously unfair. The court plans to decide about 1M cases by term end in late June.
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Supreme Court
William J. Brennan Jr
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High court narrows prisoner rights in two cases
The court split 6-1 in limiting access to federal review for state prisoners who failed to raise constitutional claims at trial. It upheld Williams’s jail clothing conviction, noting impact on juror impressions, while extending a 1973 rule that a federal prisoner waives grand jury challenges if not raised at trial. Brennan dissented.
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Stevens rebukes three colleagues over obscenity review votes
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens rebuked three colleagues for routinely voting to deny full review of obscenity cases. He argued the court should deny petitions unless a valid reason is offered, while Brennan Stewart and Marshall dissented on Oregon convictions, saying the state obscenity law is overbroad and should be overturned.
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Thurgoo Marshall
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