21 Jan 2020 1:12 pm
Except Trump never invoked Executive Privilege you jackass.Termin8tor » 21 Jan 2020 12:19 pm » wrote:That's stunningly stupid.Misty » 21 Jan 2020 11:21 am » wrote:18 U.S. Code § 1505.
Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1505
Roger Stone isn't the president of the country and cannot express Executive Privilege.
Trump can, and if House Dems wanted testimony or documents, they should have gone to SCOTUS to get it.
You mean like Nixon did?Termin8tor » 21 Jan 2020 12:19 pm » wrote:But they would have lost on almost every matter, if not all.
Once again, he never invoked EP.Termin8tor » 21 Jan 2020 12:19 pm » wrote:You cannot charge any president for protecting his privileges from a corrupt Congress. Trying is a **** joke.
His lawyers argued that there was some kind of a non-existent privilege called 'absolute immunity.'
And FYI, you cannot hide behind EP to cover up a crime.
Ask Tricky Dick.
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court.
Issued on July 24, 1974, the decision was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal, when there was an ongoing impeachment process against Richard Nixon.
United States v. Nixon is considered a crucial precedent limiting the power of any U.S. president to claim executive privilege.
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The Court held that a claim of Presidential privilege as to materials subpoenaed for use in a criminal trial cannot override the needs of the judicial process if that claim is based, not on the ground that military or diplomatic secrets are implicated, but merely on the ground of a generalized interest in confidentiality.
Nixon was then ordered to deliver the subpoenaed materials to the District Court.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nixon