How to Use executive privilege in a Sentence

executive privilege

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• The conversations with Ivey’s chiefs of staff were the heart of an executive privilege case that was also before the Supreme Court.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2023
• As a result, the letter said, claims of executive privilege would not be honored and the FBI would be given access to the documents in a matter of days.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 23 Aug. 2022
• The judge had signaled in her ruling that a special master could screen records that could be covered by claims of executive privilege.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
• Liz Cheney gave a pretty impassioned speech and praised how many women have had the guts to come out versus the men that hide behind executive privilege.
  — NBC News, 24 July 2022
• Should the case progress in his direction, Mr. Trump is expected to go to federal court to try to assert executive privilege.
  — New York Times, 23 July 2022
• Bannon had defied the panel’s subpoena, citing Trump’s claim of executive privilege, even though Bannon was not in the government at the time of the attack.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2022
• The question of executive privilege prompted more than a year of legal wrangling over whether Mr. Navarro could invoke that at a time when Mr. Trump was no longer president.
  — Zach Montague, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Pence has not been subpoenaed, and the process could take months because Trump can seek to block, or slow, his testimony by trying to invoke executive privilege.
  — Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• Back in January, the Court rejected Trump’s bid to block the release of documents to the select committee on the basis of executive privilege.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2022
• Navarro had tried to claim executive privilege before the trial too.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• Trump no longer has the option of sheltering behind the ambiguous shield of executive privilege.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
• But there's no evidence that Trump had an executive privilege to hold onto the documents.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
• The move by the Justice Department sets up a potential clash over the issue of executive privilege, if the former president chooses to fight the Pence subpoena.
  — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
• His lawyer, Robert Costello, said the change was because Trump has waived his executive privilege claim from preventing the testimony.
  — Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2022
• According to the May letter, Mr. Trump sought to make an executive privilege claim over the documents handed over in January.
  — Alex Leary, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• Trump’s claims of executive privilege as soon as late October.
  — Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• Cannon granted the request last week, assigning a special master to review the records and weed out any that may be covered by claims of attorney-client or executive privilege.
  — Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
• But Sununu isn’t the first New Hampshire governor to claim executive privilege.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• The company also argued that Trump may want to assert claims of executive privilege over some of the information contained in his account.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
• But the committee argues that Mr. Navarro’s work trying to overturn the election was not a part of his official duties and not covered by executive privilege.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
• Like Mehta, the judge in Bannon’s July 2022 contempt trial prohibited the use of executive privilege as a defense.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• In declining to testify and turn over records, Bannon claimed executive privilege, and his lawyer said he was contacted by Trump lawyer Justin Clark and instructed not to respond.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• That shouldn't be the explanation here because, of course, there are a great many things these witnesses can testify with no even plausible claim of executive privilege.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2022
• Legal arguments against the governors point to the lack of executive privilege spelled out in state constitutions.
  — John Sharp | , al, 16 Mar. 2023
• The transcript would likely need to be reviewed for classified information and any claims of executive privilege would have to be settled before it could be released.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
• Trump had argued that his records, which the committee wanted to obtain for its probe into the Capitol riot, were protected by executive privilege.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 2 July 2022
• Trump’s lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and segregate any that may be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
  — Eric Tucker, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
• Trump’s lawyers are seeking an independent review of the records to identify any that may be protected by executive privilege.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 27 Aug. 2022
• The review is aimed at weeding out any materials that might be protected by claims of attorney-client or executive privilege.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• His lawyers have argued that President Biden — who waived executive privilege for both men — does not have the authority to do so over the testimony of a former president’s senior aides.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024