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 ...

Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero confirmed on Monday that he received a letter from Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin invoking “executive privilege” concerning the Senate inquiry into the ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Like numerous U.S. presidents before him, Donald Trump could cite the legal doctrine of "executive privilege" to try to block congressional investigators from getting access to certain ...