Judicial Process: US V. Nixon

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The court rejected Nixon claim to have “immunity from review judicial process”, the Supreme Court also found that the court has a final say determining Constitutional question. The court ruled in the Senates favor on the strength that the law only three requirements for impeachment is: “must be under oath”, a “two-third “vote is required, and if the “president is tried for impeachment the chief of Justice must be present”. (The Oyez Project, United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974).Which none of these rules where violated under the law.

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