How much leeway will the Supreme Court give a president who wants to stonewall House Republican investigations? There’s only one way to find out. Aside from whatever they hope to leverage out of the ...

Journal Editorial Report: Special Counsel Robert Hur's report is a brutal commentary on President Joe Biden's capabilities. (02/11/24) Images: Justice Department/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly ...

A few former Florida governors cared no more for open government than Ron DeSantis does, but he’s the first one to claim an “executive privilege” to conceal public records that the Constitution and ...

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has increasingly invoked executive privilege to withhold documents requested under the state's open records law. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents can keep some ...

Executive privilege: George Washington invoked it, Dwight Eisenhower named it and Richard Nixon abused it. Now it looms as the nuclear option in George W. Bush’s battle with Congress over its ...

The subpoena of former Vice President Mike Pence by the Department of Justice could set up a showdown over executive privilege. Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked the legal ...

Ron DeSantis is not the first Florida governor to show open disdain for the state’s open-government laws, but he’s the first to claim an “executive privilege” to conceal public records that the ...

In both cases, former President Donald J. Trump is claiming a novel power to keep White House information from his time in office secret from the Justice Department. By Charlie Savage and Glenn Thrush ...

Sept 6 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Sunday granted former U.S. President Donald Trump’s request for a “special master” to review documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago resort, including to determine ...