0 the principle that a president or other important executive official should not have to tell protected information to others
1 the principle that a president or other important executive official should not have to tell protected information to others
The colonial state had long appropriated an executive privilege for itself.
Politics saw executive privilege and hardliners.
Unlike other disputes involving executive privilege, the president has never personally asserted privilege.
Presidential secrecy can be justified with either claims of national security or executive privilege.
Burr's trial brought into question the ideas of executive privilege, state secrets privilege, and the independence of the executive.
Nixon refused to release them, citing executive privilege.
Yoo has defended executive privilege, but only to protect national security, diplomatic, and military secrets.
The first is executive privilege, which allows the president to withhold from disclosure any communications made directly to the president in the performance of executive duties.
