Nixon v US
What did the court want that Nixon was hiding?
Tape recordings
What is mandatory for authorities to read to someone who is being arrested or interrogated?
The Miranda Rights
Plessy v Ferguson violated what two amendments?
13th and 14th amendments
Marbury v Madison declared the doctrine of?
Judicial Review
How many times was Bakke rejected from the University of California?
Twice
How many people were involved in the Watergate scandal?
Five men
What was Miranda being charged with?
Rape and kidnapping a women
Separate but equal means?
Segregation was allowed in public facilities so long as the quantities were equal
When did Chief Justice Warren Burger say that the President did not have an absolute, unqualified privilege to withhold information?
July 24, 1974
What amendments were being violated?
The 5th and 6th amendment
Why were the plaintiffs denied relief in the lower courts ?
Because racially segregated public facilities were legal so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
How many weeks after the Supreme Court decision did Nixon resign from office?
About two weeks after the decision was made
In the first trial for the Miranda case how many years was Miranda sentenced?
20-30 years in prison
Homer Plessy was ______ white and _______ African American
seven-eighths, one eighths
The court declared that the rights of slave owners were protected by what amendment?
5th amendment
Where was Bakkes first court case held?
California
What committee worked on three articles of impeachment against President Nixon?
House Judiciary Committee
The confession Miranda gave could not be used in court because?
Miranda was not read his rights before given the confession
What was the solution to this case?
Brown v Board of Education
The courts opinion in the Marbury v Madison case was written by what Chief Justice?
Chief Justice John Marshal