Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Wilson all agreed to appear before Senate groups to answer questions, and Senator Sam Ervin has wondered why such answers could not be compelled-at least in the proper circumstances. "If we were engaged in a war," he said, "and some judge in, say, Guam subpoenaed the President in a crap-shooting case or something, then I can see the high court overturning the subpoena." But in the case of a Senate hearing, he added, "I can't see how the President would be inconvenienced...
White went on in his footnote to say that the great Chief Justice John Marshall had once ruled "that in proper circumstances a subpoena could be issued to the President." Upon closer examination, Chief Justice Marshall's opinion is not quite so clear. While he did subpoena President Thomas Jefferson to produce a letter he had received, for use by Aaron Burr in his treason trial, Marshall's language was elaborately conciliatory and courteous. As for Jefferson, he asserted that the court had no right to compel information, but he did voluntarily supply an edited version...
Ervin's committee was considering a subpoena of White House logs listing the disputed meetings between Nixon and Counsel John Dean. The White House first refused to turn over the logs -a move it once again called "constitutionally inappropriate"-then, after a change of heart, the Administration agreed to produce the documents...
...President, in fact, be forced to honor a subpoena? Constitutionalists are to be found on all sides of the issue...
...rate and third highest per capita annual income (about $539) in Central America. Recently, however, both its tranquillity and its reputation have been somewhat impaired by the presence of fugitive American Financier Robert L. Vesco, who moved there a year ago and has remained in order to escape the subpoena jurisdiction of U.S. courts (TIME...