Word: subpoenae
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...rare occasions, of course, the Supreme Court has mocked prognosticates with a ruling contrary to all expert expectation. In the subpoena case, it was conceivable ?barely? that the Justices could deadlock at 4 to 4. Legally, that would leave the original Sirica order in force, but politically it would be a kind of victory for Nixon. Another option was to return the case to Sirica on some
...tapes are produced, the White House might report, as it has in the past, that some recordings mentioned in the subpoena simply were never made. So far the White House has said that 13 tapes previously sought do not exist. Others may contain gaps, like a 19-minute blank reported last week by the Special
Kissinger worries that he will be dragged further into the scandals of Nixon's White House. The Secretary has been subpoenaed to testify at the trial of John Ehrlichman, the former domestic affairs chief, who is charged with conspiracy and perjury in the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ehrlichman's lawyers hope to show that Kissinger had told their client and the President that Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon papers, was a national security risk. With White House backing, Kissinger was fighting the subpoena, claiming that he knew nothing about Ehrlichman's innocence...
Maurice D. Ford '52, lecturer on Law, was among a crowd of 250 who spent Sunday night on the steps of the United States Supreme Court Building hoping to be among the few spectators admitted to yesterday's hearings on whether President Nixon must obey federal subpoena's for Watergate tapes...
...Clair took two other steps to strengthen Nixon's pending Supreme Court arguments against an order by Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the President must honor Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoena for 64 tapes. St. Clair petitioned the Supreme Court to consider as part of that case whether a grand jury had the authority to name the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate coverup, as it had secretly voted to do last Feb. 25, and, if so, whether it had acted on the basis of sufficient evidence. He also asked Judge Sirica...