And where it discusses the circumstances that the President can use to invoke it?
2007-07-12 04:20:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain search warrants and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government. The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned in the United States Constitution, but some consider it to be an element of the separation of powers doctrine, and/or derived from the supremacy of executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity.
2007-07-12 04:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Mary W 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain search warrants and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government. The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned in the United States Constitution, but some consider it to be an element of the separation of powers doctrine, and/or derived from the supremacy of executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity.[1]
2007-07-12 11:26:11 · answer #2 · answered by Kacy H 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe that the words, " Executive Privilege" are used. I do know that there is the separation of powers. And by the way, my nephew works for the President of a very large company and the gov is investigating the firing of several top managers, does my nephew have executive privilege?? If not, why should the Prez of the USA have that power and Joe Blow not have it??
2007-07-12 11:33:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yup it is Bush's fault, every bad thing that ever has happened is Bush's fault. He killed Elvis, caused Pearl Harbor, bombed the twin towers and was the shooter on the grassy knoll.
Remember the media quoted "sources in the Bush Administration" He has a time machine, didn't you know that?
2007-07-13 10:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution DOES grant the power and authority by which the operating rules for procedure may be established.
Those legally established rules do grant "Executive Privilege".
2007-07-12 11:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by Philip H 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
dont you love it. its a power the office of the presidency says is implied in the constitution...
thats like saying a cop can beat you for no reason becuase he said it was implied in the law.
2007-07-12 11:27:23 · answer #6 · answered by Kevy 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's in the paragraph following the phrase "separation of church and state".
2007-07-12 11:28:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋