In U.S.v.Nixon,the U.S.Supreme Court

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In U.S.v.Nixon, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the rights of criminal defendants overrode the president's general claim of executive privilege. This decision affirmed the principle that no person, not even the president, is above the law and that the Constitution's protection of individual rights must be upheld even in the face of claims of executive power. The Court ordered President Nixon to turn over the recordings of his conversations in the Oval Office as evidence in a criminal trial, and this ruling set an important precedent for defining the limits of executive privilege in the United States.