White House Counsel Informs Judiciary Committee President Will Assert Executive Privilege

Follow up to June 13 posting, Judiciary Chairmen Leahy, Conyers Issue Subpoenas For White House Officials, Documents see these related government documents and Congressional statements issued today:

  • Press release from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT): “As the Committee opens its Executive Business meeting today, I note that the deadline has passed for the White House and its former Political Director, Sara Taylor, to produce documents from a subpoena issued on June 13. This Committee’s subpoena and a similar subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee compelled the White House to turn over documents related to our continuing investigation into the firings of United States Attorneys around the country. The Committee’s subpoena has been met not with compliance, but with Nixonian stonewalling. This morning, I received a phone call and a letter from White House Counsel Fred Fielding informing me that the President intends to assert executive privilege in response to our subpoena.”
  • House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) Statement in Response to the President’s Assertion of Executive Privilege in Response to the Committee’s June 13 Subpoena for Documents
  • What Is Executive Privilege, Anyway? by Eric Weiner, NPR
  • CRS Report – Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege:History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments, September 21, 1999, Morton Rosenberg, Specialist in American Public Law, American Law Division: “This report provides a brief review and discussion of the historical and legal development ofthe constitutionally-based prerogative of the President to maintain the confidentiality ofdocuments or other materials or information that reflect presidential decisionmaking anddeliberations. The evolving nature and scope of the presidential privilege is described anddiscussed and recent court decisions are analyzed to determine how they illuminate currentinterbranch information disputes.”
  • CRS Report, Presidential Advisers’ Testimony Before Congressional Committees: An Overview, Updated April 10, 2007
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