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longship

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38. Well, Watergate basically killed executive privilege.

Reply to GitRDun (Reply #35)

Wed May 31, 2017, 03:35 PM

May 2017

As well as hiding documents. POTUS has no claim to be above the law, which Nixon basically claimed until his death. "If the President does it, it is not illegal." (Or some such.) However, SCOTUS ruled otherwise.

Attorney/client privilege only goes so far. And hiding documents from a legal investigation is never legal.

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