How to Use executive privilege in a Sentence

executive privilege

noun
Definition of executive privilegenext
  • 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 | Jsharp@al.com, al, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Trump tried to use executive privilege to keep his White House records secret.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Garland gave them a transcript but said the White House had exerted executive privilege on the tapes.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Navarro had tried to claim executive privilege before the trial too.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Trump no longer has the option of sheltering behind the ambiguous shield of executive privilege.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
  • But there's no evidence that Trump had an executive privilege to hold onto the documents.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The move by the Justice Department sets up a potential clash over the issue of executive privilege, if the former president chooses to fight the Pence subpoena.
    — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • His lawyer, Robert Costello, said the change was because Trump has waived his executive privilege claim from preventing the testimony.
    — Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2022
  • According to the May letter, Mr. Trump sought to make an executive privilege claim over the documents handed over in January.
    — Alex Leary, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Trump sued last year to try to stop the committee from receiving notes and other documents even after Biden waived executive privilege.
    — Farnoush Amiri and Colleen Long, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Trump made claims of executive privilege over a subset of the documents and portions of the records, shielding their release, but Remus told Ferriero that Mr. Biden does not uphold those assertions.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Trump's legal team is still trying to draw lines around executive privilege despite losing a lawsuit against the House investigation at the Supreme Court.
    — Gloria Borger, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Trump’s claims of executive privilege as soon as late October.
    — Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Cannon granted the request last week, assigning a special master to review the records and weed out any that may be covered by claims of attorney-client or executive privilege.
    — Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Showing that no good deed goes unpunished, Republicans now argue that Mr. Garland’s release of the transcript waived executive privilege for the audio.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • Biden asserted executive privilege over the recordings in May to deny House Republicans access to them.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 July 2024

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