How to Use executive privilege in a Sentence

executive privilege

noun
  • Those emails have so far been withheld by the state’s lawyers, citing executive privilege in most instances.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Trump tried to use executive privilege to keep his White House records secret.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Here’s a world tour of countries whose leaders have taken executive privilege to a whole new level.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Moore said the office didn’t push back against executive privilege for fear of a court test that would establish boundaries for its use.
    — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 19 Mar. 2018
  • This is not a privilege in the sense of executive privilege unique to the president.
    — NBC News, 1 May 2018
  • Schiff said Hicks did not assert any type of executive privilege, but just said she had been advised not to answer.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Democrats insisted that the claim of executive privilege did not have merit.
    — Luke Johnson, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The judge had signaled in her ruling that a special master could screen records that could be covered by claims of executive privilege.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Navarro had tried to claim executive privilege before the trial too.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Biden went a step further last month and asserted that the recordings fall under executive privilege.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
  • Philbin countered that testimony from Bolton would lead to a lengthy fight over executive privilege.
    — NBC News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • That is why Biden has asserted executive privilege to keep the recording under wraps.
    — The Editors, National Review, 20 May 2024
  • In a further step to shield the recordings, Biden asserted executive privilege over the audio last month.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
  • Garland gave them a transcript but said the White House had exerted executive privilege on the tapes.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • Trump, of course, wanted to block the release of those logs and argued that executive privilege should prevent the publicizing of those logs.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Trump no longer has the option of sheltering behind the ambiguous shield of executive privilege.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The White House has cited executive privilege in its refusal to comply.
    — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The Justice Department said executive privilege holds in this case as has in many others.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 14 June 2024
  • The White House would likely try to claim executive privilege to block any such testimony.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
  • His assertion of executive privilege is laughable, and both Congress and a jury were right to reject it.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
  • Biden largely waived executive privilege on documents held by the White House.
    — Nomaan Merchant, chicagotribune.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Trump has asked a federal court to block the release of the documents, claiming that they are protected by executive privilege.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Liz Cheney gave a pretty impassioned speech and praised how many women have had the guts to come out versus the men that hide behind executive privilege.
    — NBC News, 24 July 2022
  • The point is, once the documents find their way into the public’s custody, all the arguments pertaining to executive privilege are moot.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The conversations with Ivey’s chiefs of staff were the heart of an executive privilege case that was also before the Supreme Court.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And executive privilege, even if invoked, would likely not apply to electoral conspiracies.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who has a stronger claim to executive privilege, is locked in a standoff with the committee.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
  • On Wednesday, the judge went further, ruling that Navarro cannot argue to the trial jury that a valid claim of executive privilege existed.
    — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Trump is claiming executive privilege, but the current White House says that's not his call to make anymore and is happy to assist the investigation.
    — Dan Berman, CNN, 28 Nov. 2021
  • As a result, the letter said, claims of executive privilege would not be honored and the FBI would be given access to the documents in a matter of days.
    — Eric Tucker, ajc, 23 Aug. 2022

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