Former President Trump’s inner circle is leaning on unanswered legal questions about the scope of his authority to invoke executive privilege in their defiance of the House Jan. 6 select committee’s ...

How much leeway will the Supreme Court give a president who wants to stonewall House Republican investigations? There’s only one way to find out. Aside from whatever they hope to leverage out of the ...

Last week, the White House Counsel disclosed that President Biden had ordered the release of White House visitor logs to the select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at our ...

We’re covering this in other pieces today. But I want to zoom in on the issue of executive privilege, which Trump’s lawyers have repeatedly invoked in their latest court action. The filing has been ...

Journal Editorial Report: Special Counsel Robert Hur's report is a brutal commentary on President Joe Biden's capabilities. (02/11/24) Images: Justice Department/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly ...

TALLAHASSEE - State and national media organizations and open-government advocacy groups this week urged an appeals court to reject arguments that "executive privilege" shields Gov. Ron DeSantis' ...

A few former Florida governors cared no more for open government than Ron DeSantis does, but he’s the first one to claim an “executive privilege” to conceal public records that the Constitution and ...

For a time, that Cabinet office was the public’s passionate ally. It still publishes the annual Government-in-the-Sunshine Manual listing legal precedents and the ever-growing list of exceptions that ...

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Executive privilege: George Washington invoked it, Dwight Eisenhower named it and Richard Nixon abused it. Now it looms as the nuclear option in George W. Bush’s battle with Congress over its ...