Which of the following provided a legal basis for this Supreme Court decision? In 1971, President Richard Nixon claimed executive privilege to
prevent newspapers from publishing classified information. He
argued that release of the Pentagon Papers, which detailed US
involvment in Vietnam, threatened national security. The US
Supreme Court ruled in favor of the newspapers.
The 13th Amendment
The decision in Brown v Board of Education
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The 1st Amendment