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Though several Justices seemed to think that the matter was largely irrelevant to their main decision, St. Clair drew relatively few objections to his contention that the Watergate grand jury did not have the right to name Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator in the cover-up case. "For the purposes of our decision, we can just lay that fact aside," Justice Brennan observed. But St. Clair claimed that it had already prejudiced the impeachment inquiry against Nixon and that he had been unfairly reduced to "an 85% President...
...apparent agreement with St. Clair, Powell observed, "With grand juries sitting all over the United States, and occasionally you find a politically motivated prosecutor?that's a rather far-reaching power, if it exists." Stewart, on the other hand, did not accept the St. Clair argument that if a grand jury lacks the power to indict a sitting President, it cannot name nun as an unindicted co-conspirator either: "I should think you could run the argument the other way, saying that since the President cannot be indicted, then all that can happen to him is that...
...possible effect the Supreme Court case might have on the impeachment that obviously most concerned St. Clair. Reversing their normal roles of worrying about the ultimate impact of a decision rather than the narrow legal question before the court, the more liberal Justices this time seemed to dismiss impeachment as of no concern in this case. Declared Brennan: "You have not convinced me that we are drawn into it by deciding this case. How are we drawn into the impeachment proceedings by deciding this case...
...Clair: The impact of a decision in this case undeniably, in my view . . . will not be overlooked...