Nixon vs. United States Article 3 of the Constitution grants the Supreme Court the power to review cases and declare a verdict. However, the Supreme Court is only allowed to make a decision regarding a case if and only it is brought to them. In other words, only cases that has been passed through the lower courts and has made its way up into the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court allowed to make a decision. From the founding of the constitution, many cases have made its way up the courts and into the Supreme Court where the Justices deliver the final verdict. Cases similar to that of Nixon vs. United States challenged the federal power of the President. Five men were apprehended by the police on April 17, 1972 in the Democratic …show more content…
It is important as it prevented an abuse of Presidential power by limiting the power of the President. The Supreme Court gave the Judicial and Legislative branch permission to obtain confidential information from the Executive branch if it is necessary for providing a fair trial. If the Supreme Court had not limited the power of the President, future President will be able to follow Nixon’s example, committing illegal acts and hiding the information from the other branches. If not for the intervention of the Supreme Court, Richard Nixon would have been able to hide the illegal actions he was committing while in office. If not for their ruling, the world would be of one where documents or recording devices that record the illegal actions of the President or any member of the Executive branch may go unnoticed. This could seriously endanger the democratic nation as the President would become one similar to that of King George III whom the founding fathers sought to avoid when they draft the Constitution. However, this court case also proved that the privileges granted to a certain person or groups are not absolute. The executive privilege granted to the President is not absolute and neither are any of the rights guaranteed in the constitution. No rights are absolute and thus, this court case had a negative impact on the society of the United