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- US v Nixon
- McDonald v Chicago 2010
- Stop right there
- Marbury vs Madison
- The bamboo is like the government with different branches need the stem to maintain everything#160;#160;
- A grand jury returned indictments against seven of President Richard Nixon's closest aides in the Watergate affair. The special prosecutor appointed by Nixon and the defendants sought audio tapes of conversations recorded by Nixon in the Oval Office. Nixon asserted that he was immune from the subpoena claiming, executive privilege, which is the right to withhold information from other government branches to preserve confidential communications within the executive branch or to secure the national interest.
- Several suits were filed against Chicago and Oak Park in Illinois challenging their gun bans after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller. In that case, the Supreme Court held that a District of Columbia (a city) handgun ban violated the Second Amendment. There, the Court reasoned that the law in question was enacted under the authority of the federal government and, thus, the Second Amendment was applicable. Here, plaintiffs argued that the Second Amendment should also apply to the states.
- Marbury was a man who believed Thomas Jefferson’s administration was wrong for denying him a court commissioner position that had been promised by John Adam’s administration. Marbury sued James Madison, the secretary of state, in order to force the administration to make him a commissioner.#160;The Constitution does not stipulate that the Supreme Court can force the President to do something. If the court were to try and do so it would violate the constitution…. This is wrong. This case was the first time JUDICIAL REVIEW was used to declare a congressional law unconstitutional. It is landmark because it established the principle of JUDICIAL REVIEW which is the ability of the Supreme Court to declare a law or action by the President unconstitutional. This has a lasting impact on checks and balances.
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