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Clinton Vs. Jones

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 13, 1997

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  13. U.S. 681 (1997) October Term, 1996 Syllabus Clinton V. Jones
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  14. functions effectively without fear that a particular decision may give rise to personal liability, see, e. g., Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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  15. are grounded in the nature of the function performed, not the identity of the actor who performed it. Forrester v. White
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  16. encroachment or aggrandizement of one of the three coequal branches of Government at the expense of another. Buckley v. Valeo
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  17. Branch by reviewing the legality of the President's official conduct, see, e. g., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
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  18. U. S. 579 , and may direct appropriate process to the President himself, see, e. g., United States v. Nixon
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  19. has broad discretion to stay proceedings as an incident to its power to control its own docket. See, e. g., Landis v. North
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  20. id., at 904 (quoting Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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  21. until he is no longer President, at which time the plaintiff 3 As the matter is not before us, see Jones v. Clinton
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  22. of his official responsibilities provides a defense to the fourth count of the complaint. See Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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  23. in Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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  24. however, is applicable to the entire Federal Judiciary, not just to this Court, cf. Arizonansfor Official English v. Arizona
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  25. not to pass on questions of constitutionality ... unless such adjudication is unavoidable.' Spector Motor Service v. McLaughlin
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  26. except with reference to the particular facts to which it is to be applied ... .' Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory
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  27. court to decide questions of a constitutional nature unless absolutely necessary to a decision of the case.' Burton v. United
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  28. Rescue Army v. Municipal
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  29. of the three branches of the Federal Government from encroaching on the domain of the other two, see, e. g., Buckley v. Valeo
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  30. are quite different from the interbranch separation-of-powers questions addressed here. Cf., e. g., Hancock v. Train
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  31. Mayo v. United
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  32. no sitting President has ever testified, or been ordered to testify, in open court. 15 See People ex rel. Hurley v. Roosevelt
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  33. DeVault v. Truman
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  34. Mo. 1193, 194 S. W. 2d 29 (1946). 16 See Complaints in Bailey v. Kennedy
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  35. No. 757,200, and Hills v. Kennedy
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  36. effectively without fear that a particular decision may give rise to personal liability. 18 We explained in Ferri v. Ackerman
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  37. Fitzgerald, 457 U. S., at 749. See id., at 752 (citing Ferri v. Ackerman
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  38. See, e. g., Imbler v. Pachtman
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  39. in cases alleging constitutional violations brought against federal officials is similar. See, e. g., Butz v. Economou
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  40. because that decision involved claims against a former President. 695 tive capacity. See Forrester v. White
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  41. the very decision Jefferson was protesting, and this Court has subsequently reaffirmed that holding. See United States v. Nixon
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  42. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
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  43. ibid., was rejected at the birth of the Republic. See, e. g., Nevada v. Hall
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  44. Langford v. United
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  45. U. S., at 122.30 Thus, for example, the Congress may not exercise the judicial power to revise final judgments, Plaut v. Spendthrift
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  46. of his subordinates in their most important duties.''' 457 U. S., at 749-750 (footnotes omitted). 30 See Loving v. United
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  47. Mistretta v. United
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  48. U. S. 211 (1995),31 or the executive power to manage an airport, see Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority v. Citizens
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  49. See J. W Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United
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  50. to the Executive,33 or permit the federal courts to resolve nonjusticiable questions.34 31 See also United States v. Klein
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