Executive Privilege 101 ... but the Supreme Court did not begin to define the privilege’s contours until the White House tried to block disclosure of the now-famous Nixon tapes. ...

Executive privilege, however, is not designed to serve the president’s personal interests, but those of the public. It recognizes the presidency’s unitary and unique constitutional commitments.

Our Sources. William Barr, letter to Donald Trump, May 8, 2019 National Constitution Center, "When Presidents use executive privilege," March 24, 2017Oyez.org, U.S. vs. Nixon, accessed May 8, 2019 ...

House Republicans probe former President Joe Biden's mental acuity while in office, as the Trump administration waives ...

President Clinton's lawyers argued in federal court recently for a broad definition of executive privilege that would shield internal White House discussions on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Since ...

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the committee wants answers about “who was calling the shots” during Biden’s ...

Executive privilege is confusing, and so this primer is meant to explain why some documents may not be disclosed, what the legal basis is for executive privilege, when it does and does not apply ...

One oft-cited definition comes from Mark Rozell, author of two books on executive privilege and the Founding Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Shaub about the role of executive privilege in the legal battle over government documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Shaub teaches law at the University of Kentucky.

The Justice Department argued Navarro never documented the claim of executive privilege before he was charged. But even if he had, the committee sought to ask him about protests and speeches on ...

Few of those rulings define the limits of the privilege in the context of a criminal investigation, and even fewer address the issue of a former president’s powers.