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.

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

Executive privilege is not inherent in ... be dependent on happenstance or the whim of a prior President when he seeks access to records of past decisions that define or channel current ...

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. ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A case decided in 1997 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, In re: Sealed Case, might present the broadest attempt by a federal court to define the scope of executive ...

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 ...

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.

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.