23 Jan 2020 12:22 pm
It was good enough to use against Nixon.Cannonpointer » 23 Jan 2020 12:04 pm » wrote:Fiona Hill. Steve Bannon - same link I gave you. With the relevant quote.Misty » 23 Jan 2020 12:01 pm » wrote:On whom did they claim Executive Privilege?
Link?
https://www.mic.com/p/what-is-executive ... n-19266894
The same link lays out the house's remedy, if they feel EP is being over-used:
I see no mention of using it as grounds for impeachment. Do you?If the administration continues to invoke the policy to evade the impeachment inquiry, a committee in the House or Senate can vote to hold the president in contempt of Congress, and then take the case to court in order to seek a judge’s ruling to force compliance.
On July 30, the final day of its impeachment debate, Article III, charging Nixon with contempt of Congress for his defiance of eight Judiciary Committee subpoenas, issued during April, May and June 1974, was introduced by Robert McClory, and was approved by a narrow 21–17 margin.
The president's refusal to comply with federal court and congressional subpoenas had been included among the various charges of abuses of authority in the initial version of Article II, but was absent from substitute.
Proponents argued that Nixon's consistent "stonewalling" constituted an impeachable offence as it threatened to diminish the House's constitutional impeachment power.
McClory argued that the claim of executive privilege "has no place in an impeachment inquiry."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeach ... hard_Nixon