Last week, the White House Counsel disclosed that President Biden had ordered the release of White House visitor logs to the select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at our ...

How much leeway will the Supreme Court give a president who wants to stonewall House Republican investigations? There’s only one way to find out. Aside from whatever they hope to leverage out of the ...

TALLAHASSEE - State and national media organizations and open-government advocacy groups this week urged an appeals court to reject arguments that "executive privilege" shields Gov. Ron DeSantis' ...

Journal Editorial Report: Special Counsel Robert Hur's report is a brutal commentary on President Joe Biden's capabilities. (02/11/24) Images: Justice Department/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly ...

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has increasingly invoked executive privilege to withhold documents requested under the state's open records law. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents can keep some ...

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon may decide to appoint a special master in connection with the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. Previously she indicated a “preliminary intent” to appoint ...

A few former Florida governors cared no more for open government than Ron DeSantis does, but he’s the first one to claim an “executive privilege” to conceal public records that the Constitution and ...

The subpoena of former Vice President Mike Pence by the Department of Justice could set up a showdown over executive privilege. Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked the legal ...

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 ...

External e-mails sent from Dr. Anthony Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre are not covered by executive privilege and must be produced in a federal civil action. The case, brought ...

In both cases, former President Donald J. Trump is claiming a novel power to keep White House information from his time in office secret from the Justice Department. By Charlie Savage and Glenn Thrush ...