Rather than questioning the holding in Nixon, ... A response to the claim that President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wants to overrule United States v. Nixon.

Under Trump v. United States, Nixon wouldn’t have had to worry about a pardon. He could have explained away all of these crimes as “official acts” he took using the powers of the presidency.

In United States v. Nixon, the Supreme Court considered President Nixon’s claim that executive privilege relieved him of the obligation to turn over certain tapes of presidential conversations ...