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7. When it's related to criminality the president cannot invoke executive privilege.
Wed May 17, 2017, 03:05 PM
May 2017

He can try to invoke executive privilege when evidence is subpoenaed from his office but Nixon could not do that. Because the federal court ruled he could not withhold evidence even as president when it relates to a the investigation of a crime.

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