In Re the Attorney General of the United States, Socialist Workers Party v. The Attorney General

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• holding that even a member of the Cabinet must be cited for con- tempt of court before a court of appeals will review a dis- covery order
• affidavit of the Attorney General that \the failure to recognize the privilege would adversely affect the entire law enforcement and intelligence-gathering apparatus of the United States.\
• affidavit of the Attorney General that “the failure to recognize the privilege would adversely affect the entire law enforcement and intelligence-gathering apparatus of the United States.”
• “a contempt sanction imposed on the Attorney General in his official capacity has greater public importance, with separation of powers overtones, and warrants more sensitive judicial scrutiny than such a sanction imposed on an ordinary litigant”
• “[T]he court must not lightly invoke its contempt power.”
• using mandamus to answer “underlying issues of first impression”

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