Trump v. Vance

Decided July 9, 2020. John Glover Roberts Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 19-635 · 591 U.S. 786 (2020) · Cited 55 times

Holding

Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude, or require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal subpoena to a sitting President.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–2.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. The lineup is the syllabus’s disposition of who wrote and joined each opinion. Source: the opinion’s syllabus (supremecourt.gov).

Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Clinton v. Jones · 520 U.S. 681 (1997)
• United States v. Nixon · 418 U.S. 683 (1974)
• Nixon v. Fitzgerald · 457 U.S. 731 (1982)
• Zivotofsky v. Kerry · 576 U.S. 1 (2015)
• Myers v. United States · 272 U.S. 52 (1926)
• Cheney v. United States District Court for District of Columbia · 542 U.S. 367 (2004)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld · 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
• Mayo v. United States · 319 U.S. 441 (1943)
• Goodyear Atomic Corp. v. Miller · 486 U.S. 174 (1988)
• United States v. R. Enterprises, Inc. · 498 U.S. 292 (1991)
• Younger v. Harris · 401 U.S. 37 (1971)
• Dombrowski v. Pfister · 380 U.S. 479 (1965)
• Branzburg v. Hayes · 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
• Osborn v. Bank of United States · 22 U.S. 738 (1824)
• Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · 420 U.S. 592 (1975)
• Coy v. Iowa · 487 U.S. 1012 (1988)
• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council · 530 U.S. 363 (2000)
• Dames & Moore v. Regan · 453 U.S. 654 (1981)
• United States v. Pink · 315 U.S. 203 (1942)
• Environmental Protection Agency v. California Ex Rel. State Water Resources Control Board · 426 U.S. 200 (1976)
• United States v. Belmont · 301 U.S. 324 (1937)
• American Ins. Assn. v. Garamendi · 539 U.S. 396 (2003)
• Arizona v. California · 283 U.S. 423 (1931)
• Hancock v. Train · 426 U.S. 167 (1976)
• Kern-Limerick, Inc. v. Scurlock · 347 U.S. 110 (1954)
• Johnson v. Maryland · 254 U.S. 51 (1920)
• Clallam County v. United States · 263 U.S. 341 (1923)
• Leslie Miller, Inc. v. Arkansas · 352 U.S. 187 (1956)
• Farmers and Mechanics Sav. Bank of Minneapolis v. Minnesota · 232 U.S. 516 (1914)
• Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · 333 U.S. 103 (1948)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Trump v. United States · 603 U.S. 593 (2024)

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