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The executive privilege that Donald Trump has claimed is his to waive— it's not mine to waive, is not Congress' to waive, and that's why we filed a lawsuit to hopefully get the courts to weigh in. Hopefully, they'll weigh in.

Mark Meadows

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Then there is another president who is in office at that time, so the considerations in terms of the separation of powers between the branches shift, because you do have the executive and the legislature -- and the person who is subject of the subpoena and the entities associated with that person are neither of those.

Sri Srinivasan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At a time when Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the Executive Branch, it is an unconscionable failure to deliver a National Defense Authorization Act that does not meet the values of equity and justice for which we have long strived or a bill that does not meaningfully protect the foundations of our democracy.

Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Stage legislatures were having difficulties sometimes with their executive office of the governors, they were fighting the federal government, whether it be with mandated lockdowns or implied mandated lockdowns...and having served in the state legislature in Arizona for a while, it seemed to me we spend so much time responding to federal issues, it would be good if we could get some synergy back and forth and open up communication that might be more direct between the Freedom Caucus and conservative members of Congress and the conservative members of the state legislatures, we grappled with how best to do that, and once we came to this idea that we should have state affiliated freedom caucuses, and then the question was how do you implement, how do you create the infrastructure to do that, and that's what we've been working on for quite some time.

Andy Biggs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would expect if you were right a provision in the statute that addresses this very situation, when the incumbent president says, 'Executive privilege is waived, I'm allowing these documents to go out,' and the former president says, 'No, no, I have executive privilege and I'm asserting it,' then the former president gets to come to court and… the court will decide – and here are the standards.

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Supreme Court in Nixon v. GSA was explicit that when it comes to evaluating the interests of the executive branch, when that call is made by the incumbent president… the interests asserted by the former president is diminished, counts for something.

Patricia Millett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The issue, as I understood, before us was not about the content of the documents or when you look at them, but simply what happens when the current incumbent president says I'm not going to invoke executive privilege as to these documents with respect to this particular request.

Patricia Millett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want Meadows to come in and testify on everything of interest to us, if he thinks there are some questions that are covered by either executive privilege or the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, he can invoke it and a court can settle it later.

Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Judge Nichols, at the time, presented the executive branch's arguments, which are very aggressive in their in their views on the ability [presidential] advisers to refuse to turn over information, he'll be quite familiar with the issues and hopefully, at least, it will allow him to rule relatively expeditiously on some of these things.

Emily Berman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He'll be quite familiar with the issues and hopefully, at least, it will allow him to rule relatively expeditiously on some of these things, but I think it is significant that he's got a history of defending aggressive interpretations of executive privilege.

Emily Berman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Here was a guy that was playing stadiums in Latin America, if you [ were a label executive and you ] went to a Ricky concert in Argentina and you saw 50,000 people, you wanted to see what you could do with the guy elsewhere.

Leila Cobo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

An item could open a door for liability that Harris County currently is not exposed to. And so if there is that possibility, I'd like to discuss this in an executive session.

Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What happens inside those four walls is also a can the executive can no longer kick. We won't see either immediate solutions to the conditions or transformation of the adult production system through half measures.

Charles Allen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They changed a word but they can’t change the signal coming out of this COP, that the era of coal is ending, if you’re a coal company executive, this COP saw a bad outcome.

Jennifer Morgan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Joe Biden has evicerated Executive Privilege. There are a lot of Republicans eager to hear testimony from Ron Klain and Jake Sullivan when we take back the House.

Adam Kinzinger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Contrary to decades of consistent bipartisan opinions from the Justice Department that senior aides can not be compelled by Congress to give testimony, this is the first President to make no effort whatsoever to protect presidential communications from being the subject of compelled testimony. Staff Mark Meadows remains under the instructions of former President Trump to respect longstanding principles of executive privilege. It now appears the courts will have to resolve this conflict.

George Terwilliger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is the incumbent President who is best situated to protect executive branch interests.

Judge Tanya Chutkan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The courthouse clerks and judges who are defendants in this action are unquestionably connected to the enforcement of this new law, in addition, the state executive officials named as defendants cause distinct injuries.

Marc Hearron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What about President Trump conversations with Roger Stone ? What about President Trump conversations with other people organizing the event ? None of those is even arguably protected by executive privilege.

Neil Eggleston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The executive at Paris Match think that this will be a really dramatic, sensational meeting between the Queen of Hollywood and their own Prince, who is an eligible, young, handsome bachelor – who also just happens, rumor has it, to be looking for a wife.

Chandrika Kaul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Harry has an idyllic life in California, there isn’t an executive in Hollywood that would say no to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex… It’s quite the transformation for them.

Andrew Morton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Communication between league office employees and club executives occurs on a daily basis, jeff Pash is a respected and high-character The NFL executive. Any effort to portray these emails as inappropriate is either misleading or patently false.

Jeff Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Plan B would be to find out who these buyers are and to keep them as far away from the executive branch as possible. And you would not have prospective ambassador nominee showing Georges Bergés, i think this secrecy thing never was going to work.

Richard Painter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We take this matter incredibly seriously, the President has already concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege.

Jen Psaki

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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