Lawfare Archive: Mark Rozell on 'Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability'
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🗓️ 1 August 2021
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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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| 1:24.7 | Earlier this week, the Department of Justice authorized a number of Trump administration justice Department officials, including former acting |
| 1:27.7 | attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, to testify before Congress regarding former President Trump's |
| 1:32.5 | efforts to use the Justice Department to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election. |
| 1:38.2 | In doing so, the Biden administration essentially refused to exercise executive privilege |
| 1:42.8 | to protect communication between the previous president and the Justice Department. |
| 1:47.0 | For today's episode from the Archives, I went back to August 2019, when then Lawfare Senior Editor Margaret Taylor sat down with Mark Roselle, |
| 1:55.0 | the dean of the Sharr School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, |
| 1:59.0 | an author of Executive Privilege, Presidential |
| 2:02.5 | Power, Secrecy, and Accountability. Rosal explains what executive privilege is, its implications |
| 2:08.2 | for the separation of powers in the United States, and how the Trump administration differed |
| 2:12.7 | from previous administrations in its response to congressional requests for information. |
| 2:17.5 | Lawfare listeners will be able to better understand the Trump administration's invocations |
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