How to Use executive privilege in a Sentence

executive privilege

noun

• The executive privilege that Donald Trump has claimed is his to waive.
  — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Trump tried to use executive privilege to keep his White House records secret.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 20 Jan. 2022
• Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who has a stronger claim to executive privilege, is locked in a standoff with the committee.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
• Garland gave them a transcript but said the White House had exerted executive privilege on the tapes.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 15 June 2024
• Those emails have so far been withheld by the state’s lawyers, citing executive privilege in most instances.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Trump, of course, wanted to block the release of those logs and argued that executive privilege should prevent the publicizing of those logs.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2022
• In a further step to shield the recordings, Biden asserted executive privilege over the audio last month.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
• 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
• The White House would likely try to claim executive privilege to block any such testimony.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
• The White House has cited executive privilege in its refusal to comply.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
• 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
• On Tuesday, the Justice Department said that those officials are free to testify and that there will be no use of executive privilege to shield them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• His assertion of executive privilege is laughable, and both Congress and a jury were right to reject it.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
• That is why Biden has asserted executive privilege to keep the recording under wraps.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 May 2024
• 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
• Biden went a step further last month and asserted that the recordings fall under executive privilege.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• The point is, once the documents find their way into the public’s custody, all the arguments pertaining to executive privilege are moot.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
• Trump has asked a federal court to block the release of the documents, claiming that they are protected by executive privilege.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Philbin countered that testimony from Bolton would lead to a lengthy fight over executive privilege.
  — NBC News, 29 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Trump is claiming executive privilege, but the current White House says that's not his call to make anymore and is happy to assist the investigation.
  — Dan Berman, CNN, 28 Nov. 2021
• On Wednesday, the judge went further, ruling that Navarro cannot argue to the trial jury that a valid claim of executive privilege existed.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• Biden largely waived executive privilege on documents held by the White House.
  — Nomaan Merchant, chicagotribune.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Holder balked at a subpoena for documents for which the Obama White House had exerted executive privilege.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 15 June 2024
• The Democratic president last month asserted executive privilege to block the release of the audio, which the White House says Republicans want only for political purposes.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Twin Cities, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024