BackAgain
Neutronium Member & truth speaker #StopBrandon
That’s not the reason.The first reason is that a former executive has NO executive privilege against the current executive.
Also not exactly a correct statement of the SCOTUS decision.The only president to ever consider the possibility was Nixon, which should tell you something. SCOTUS told him that’s not a rational use of executive privilege.
That isn’t a true statement of law. If it is invoked at all, it might well insulate people in the Administration from prosecution. But that isn’t supposed to be the basis for invokingnit.The second reason is that executive privilege doesn’t protect presidents from criminal investigation.
Again, your attempted restatement of the case is incorrect.Again, Nixon tried that and SCOTUS told him that’s not rational.
While it is (and properly should be) true that an invocation of Executive Privilege can be defeated sometimes, it is also true that it shouldn’t be treated lightly or dismissively.
Although the Trump effort may or may not be a proper attempt to invoke Executive Privilege, the decision is supposed to be reached based on proper consideration of the facts and the law in each case.