Executive privilege has been asserted frequently by presidents, even though it’s not written into the Constitution. The National Constitution Center points to this definition by George Mason ...

W. Bush sought to protect documents related to a mass-firing of U.S. attorneys, but the understanding of executive privilege had changed little by 2019, when President Trump asserted it to ...

The executive privilege exists to protect the president’s legitimate interest in, at least under some circumstances, preserving the confidentiality of internal communications that is essential ...

He’s claiming a very official protection, executive privilege, absolves him from complying with a legal subpoena. Can a former president claim the protection for an informal aide? The law may ...

In judicial parlance, dicta is, by definition ... research into and writing on executive privilege. But that response invariably begins, “There is not really a simple answer because ...

The White House and Justice Department cast the dispute in high-minded terms ... pure and simple. At the same time, I’m uncomfortable with Biden’s assertion of executive privilege to prevent ...

President Bush’s recent controversial claim of executive privilege has the potential to precipitate a constitutional conflict between the White House and Congress, with far-reaching implications ...

The law provides no simple answer — which is why investigators ... months that it is prepared to assert the president’s executive privilege to keep congressional investigators from gathering ...

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 ...