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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The precise contours of executive privilege are far from clear. There are few judicial decisions on the subject, and Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel memos, though informative ...

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 Michel Martin speaks with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about the use of executive privilege to block ... whether or not to move forward in terms of prosecuting the finding ...

As the clashes between the two branches have escalated, however, the Trump administration has expanded these existing doctrines to stake out aggressive new positions about executive privilege ...

Donald Trump is considering waiving executive privilege for Steve Bannon, according to two sources familiar with the situation, but federal prosecutors don’t believe the former President’s ...