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. Presidents ...

But past decisions involving assertions of executive privilege to keep documents ... as it required Nixon to turn over Watergate tapes for a criminal investigation. (Nixon resigned soon after ...

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 ...

The question in Nixon had to do with the scope of executive privilege and where its boundaries might lie. In the Watergate case, special prosecutor Leon Jaworski had sought audio recordings that ...

Before Watergate the constitutionality of executive privilege was an open question. Nixon was not the first president to block Congress and the courts from hearing testimony of executive officials or ...

But a steady stream of revelations from the Watergate scandal ... of a criminal investigation outweighed Nixon’s claims of “executive privilege.” The tapes — not just transcripts ...

In 1974, then-President Richard Nixon, asserting that executive privilege ... counsel and seven defendants in the Watergate case. While recognizing the "privilege of the confidentiality of ...

Nixon of course did use executive privilege to avoid handing over what would prove to be some of the most damning taped conversations. Only after Leon Jaworski, the Watergate special prosecutor ...

The experience of Watergate, Nixon’s successor asserted ... presidents reasserted broad claims of executive privilege, expanded war powers, and won immunity from prosecution.

In that regard, Watergate comes to mind because it was ... Was it the Supreme Court’s historic limitation of the application of executive privilege, the pressure by members of Congress that ...