executive privilege

The January 6 committee “reminds me a little bit of McCarthyism” and lacks “an appropriate legislative purpose,” Alan Dershowitz said.

The White House has rejected former President Donald Trump’s latest claims of executive privilege regarding documents requested by the House committee investigating the Capitol Hill riot on January 6.

The former president and his team of lawyers argued the partisan Congressional select committee investigating the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill should not have access to the records.

Joe Biden was questioned by reporters about individuals such as Steve Bannon who defied the subpoena, citing former President Donald Trump’s executive privilege.

Jay Sekulow, one of the lawyers leading President Donald Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial, attacked the arguments Tuesday by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) against executive privilege — by quoting his own words at him.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned his colleagues Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor that calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump would prolong the process.

During a portion of an interview set to air on Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Trump stated that he will invoke executive privilege if former National Security Adviser John Bolton is called to testify before

Taylor revealed that a staffer, David Holmes, overheard a phone call between the president and the ambassador to the EU that mentioned “investigations.”

President Donald Trump is asserting executive privilege against Democrats’ subpoenas issued to three former White House aides. He should prevail in all three cases, though they may need to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Partisan Democrats are

“It is sad that Chairman Nadler is only interested in pandering to the press and pleasing his radical left constituency,” Sanders wrote.

White House Special Counsel Emmet Flood sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr making clear that President Donald Trump is retaining his legal privileges as partisan Democrats escalate their conflict against the president over the Mueller Report.

President Donald Trump never asserted executive privilege to block any public disclosures, Attorney General William Barr said in Thursday’s much-anticipated press conference on the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and Barr is redacting only the parts required by law.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) gave the first opening statement in the confirmation hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to be the next justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

President Donald Trump stated that he had the right to pardon himself despite the ongoing investigation into Russian collusion by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday won the first legal battle at the Supreme Court over DACA in a unanimous decision.

Justice Department lawyers are pushing back against unprecedented judicial efforts to interfere with President Donald Trump’s administration, including a fight over DACA and presidential privileges that could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions explicitly refused a demand by the Democrats on the committee to either assert executive privilege or divulge his private conversations with President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that he had not recorded his conversations with former FBI director James Comey before firing him. The media are portraying Trump’s new “admission” as a failure. But in fact, Trump’s bluff has been a tactical win for the president, for two reasons.

President Donald Trump has constitutional authority to prevent former FBI Director James Comey from testifying before Congress by invoking executive privilege but instead has chosen to let his former top investigator speak publicly.

It should not be surprising that anticipation of Donald Trump’s presidential victory caused a 900-point plunge, over several days, in the Dow Jones stock average. Wall Street sent stocks down by over 20 percent after Ronald Reagan won the presidency.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, joined Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon to talk about his new book, Watchdog: The Real Stories Behind the Headlines from the Congressman Who exposed Washington’s Biggest Scandals.

A war of words erupts between Congress and the White House, as an adviser who bragged about manipulating lazy reporters refuses to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

President Barack Obama, after years of fighting to hide Operation Fast and Furious documents, finally relented and officially dropped his claim to executive privilege over them.

President Obama will no longer be able to keep secret the documents related to the botched gun walking operation in Mexico in “Operation Fast and Furious,” thanks to a ruling from a federal judge.

With the latest news that the deadly scandal may be connected to more carnage inside the United States—specifically the Garland, Texas terrorist attack earlier this year—Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus is calling on the president to be transparent once and for all with regards to Fast and Furious.