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In reply to the discussion: It looks like ex-president has the right to claim executive privilege for conversations they had [View all]hlthe2b
(114,403 posts)privilege. Essentially, the doctrine is a balancing test, as Chief Justice Burger articulated in United States v. Nixon. The chief justice recognized that to be effective, a president needed to be able to consult with his advisers and that, to get the right kind of advice, he had to have some level of confidence that advice would remain confidential, or else people might withhold their advice for fear of it getting out--WHILE IN OFFICE.
Given the issue falls to questions of conversations of a FORMER PRESIDENT, whose attempt to block revelation of communications through a PRIOR EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE can function instead as an obstruction of justice in the attempt to reveal those behind an attempt to subvert the constitution, the public's interest would surely invalidate any such attempt in any prior SCOTUS.
We shall see.