Whenever a president claims executive privilege, there are inevitable comparisons to Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. Yet executive privilege did not originate with Watergate.

In the 1977 Nixon dispute, the justices said a former president can, even after leaving office, assert executive privilege. “The privilege survives the individual President’s tenure ...

President Donald Trump borrowed from President Richard Nixon’s failed Watergate playbook on Wednesday by invoking a sweeping claim of executive privilege, seeking to withhold from Congress the ...

This brings us to the George W. Bush administration, which, like the Nixon administration of my barely recalled childhood dreams, reflexively claims privilege, even when it doesn’t apply.

Executive privilege was most famously asserted by President Richard Nixon during Watergate, when he sought to keep secret the tapes that had been made of conversations in the Oval Office.

I had the privilege of serving as one of the president’s lawyers on the Watergate legal defense team, reporting to Special Watergate Counsel James St. Clair, a tough Boston trial lawyer.

In July, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that the demands of a criminal investigation outweighed Nixon’s claims of “executive privilege.” The tapes — not just transcripts — must be produced.

The Constitution has no “absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity,” the court said in July 1974 in United States vs. Nixon. The president’s claim of executive privilege for ...

Supreme Court’s Watergate-era rulings against Nixon may end Trump’s executive privilege claims By Joan Biskupic , CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer 6 minute read ...

Supreme Court’s Watergate-era rulings against Nixon may end Trump’s executive privilege claims By Joan Biskupic , CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer 6 minute read ...

Former President Donald Trump‘s attempt to withhold records from the House of Representatives related to the January 6 US Capitol attack based on executive privilege — a claim rejected by ...

Former President Donald Trump‘s attempt to withhold records from the House of Representatives related to the January 6 US Capitol attack based on executive privilege — a claim rejected by ...