Lawfare Archive: Mark Rozell on 'Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability'
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🗓️ 22 January 2022
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From August 6, 2019: Over the years, presidents have used different language to describe the withholding of information from Congress. To discuss the concept of "executive privilege," Margaret Taylor sat down with Mark Rozell, the Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and the author of "Executive Privilege: Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability," which chronicles the history of executive privilege in its many forms since the founding of the United States. They talked about what executive privilege is, what is new in the Trump administration's handling of congressional demands for information, and what it all means for the separation of powers in our constitutional democracy.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:31.2 | Right laptop, I'm ready to finish this thesis. |
| 0:34.2 | What thesis? |
| 0:35.2 | The one I've spent two years working on. |
| 0:36.7 | Don't have it. |
| 0:37.7 | What's the last version you saved? |
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| 0:42.9 | This is the last version I will never save another version I promise, version two. |
| 0:46.7 | Surely that one? |
| 0:47.7 | No. |
| 0:48.7 | Why? |
| 0:49.7 | It's corrupted. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Catherine Pompilio with an episode from the LawFair archive for January 22, 2022. |
| 1:20.0 | Earlier this week, the Supreme Court rejected a request from former President Trump to |
| 1:24.6 | block the release of White House records related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. |
| 1:30.0 | The court determined that the need for a full accounting of the attack and disruption |
| 1:33.3 | of the certification of the 2020 electoral count outweighs Trump's desire to maintain |
| 1:37.9 | confidentiality. |
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