“This result [… ] will daily stand as a veritable sword of Damocles over every succeeding president and his advisers.”

Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425 (1977) (dissent); the court ruled 7–2 that Congress could seize Richard Nixon’s presidential papers.
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