Sentences with phrase «claim executive privilege»

At least you didn't claim executive privilege...

Not exact matches

The courts have identified limits to claims of executive privilege like those made by President Nixon during Watergate.

Bryant continued: «This decision is ludicrously premature when the CPS is still considering corporate charges against News Corp, when the House of Commons privileges committee has still to rule on whether three News Corp executives lied to Parliament, as claimed by the select committee when it was chaired by John Whittingdale, and when the Leveson inquiry has to still to complete the second part of its work into the events at the News of the World.

A faux claim of executive privilege on an hour's notice.

[74] In that case RBS claimed privilege over documents prepared by its solicitors for the RBS Executive Steering Group (ESG), which had been established by RBS to oversee its response to various regulatory and criminal investigations into manipulation of LIBOR and other rates in the United Kingdom, United States and elsewhere.

Additionally, the draft contained a broad governmental executive information privilege (almost identical to the one in your proposed Code) and this really irritated the Congressmen, who were at that time chafing under President Nixon's excessive claims of executive privilege.

The Association also claimed privilege for minutes and briefs from Association Board meetings and Executive committee meetings.