But Trump's assertion of executive privilege in this case is highly unusual. Never before has a former president sought to prevent a current president from obtaining his presidential records from ...

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 White House asserted executive privilege over audio and video recordings related to Special Counsel Robert Hur's interviews with President Biden. "I write to inform you that the President has ...

Former President Donald Trump's attorneys say executive privilege should protect records seized this month from his residence in Florida, as the legal battle over who should control the Trump ...

In a new letter addressed to Navarro, Trump attorney Evan Corcoran states that the former White House official “had an obligation to assert executive privilege on his behalf and fully comply ...

Trump are converging on a single, highly consequential question: How much residual executive privilege can a former president invoke after leaving office? As the Justice Department investigates ...

That’s partially because federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have been relatively ambiguous as to the limits of executive privilege and have never explicitly defined what types of ...

Illustration: Adele Morgan Executive privilege is a power presidents have asserted to withhold information from Congress and the courts on the grounds that secrecy is essential to the performance ...

Executive privilege refers to the president’s right to keep certain things confidential. But how far can it be stretched? WSJ’s Shelby Holliday looks at past uses of executive privilege and ...