Word: subpoenae
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...fact, a criminal investigation and trial conducted for the purpose of determining whether or not criminal acts have been committed and the guilt or innocence of individuals." Such a proceeding, the lawyers argued, exceeds Congress's constitutional powers. The answer asked Sirica to dismiss the committee's subpoena on a number of other grounds. It said that the court lacked jurisdiction over the President, that the Senate had not authorized the subpoena and that it was "unreasonably broad and oppressive...
...Ervin and the Cox investigating committees should be ashamed if they are unable to arrive at the truth of the matter with all the time they have given themselves and with their ability to subpoena any and all employees...
...deliver its legal brief to Judge John J. Sirica (see box), arguing that the President has the absolute power to decide when the national welfare is best served by the release of presidential documents. Therefore, went the argument, the President can ignore Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox's subpoena of tape recordings of seven presidential meetings and one telephone conversation about Watergate...
...ranks with his fellow convicted burglars and talk in hopes of a lesser jail term. Watergate has been unraveling in full view ever since. Fittingly, it has fallen to Judge Sirica to referee this week the first full round in the battle for the White House tapes, now under subpoena by both the Senate Watergate committee and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. It may be among Sirica's last major decisions as a district-court judge; on his 70th birthday next March, he must decide between retirement and stepping down to senior-judge status...
Marshall dismissed the English idea that "the King can do no wrong," for the American Constitution held the President liable to impeachment and removal, and, added Marshall, "It is not known ever to have been doubted but that the chief magistrate of a state may be served with a subpoena ad testificandum." That is, the President could be subpoenaed to appear as a witness. A more complicated issue was whether the President could be compelled to produce any document in his possession. Ruled Marshall: "The President, although subject to the general rules which apply to others, may have sufficient motives...