Nixon v. United States

Nixon v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 14, 1992 Decided January 13, 1993
Full case name	Walter L. Nixon, Petitioner v. United States, et al.
Citations	506 U.S. 224 (more) 113 S. Ct. 732; 122 L. Ed. 2d 1; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 834; 61 U.S.L.W. 4069; 93 Cal. Daily Op. Service 279; 93 Daily Journal DAR 574; 6 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 821
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	744 F.Supp. 9 (D.D.C. 1990), aff'd, 938 F.2d 239 (D.C. Cir. 1991), cert. granted, 502 U.S. 1090 (1992).
Subsequent	None
Holding
The contention that Senate committees appointed to gather evidence in an impeachment trial are unconstitutional is nonjusticiable because impeachment is a political question.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Concurrence	Stevens
Concurrence	White (in judgment), joined by Blackmun
Concurrence	Souter (in judgment)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Art. I, Section 3, Clause 6

Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993), was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that a question of whether the Senate had properly tried an impeachment was political in nature and could not be resolved in the courts if there was no applicable judicial standard.^[1]