Donald Trump's Executive Privilege Fog Machine | Washington Monthly

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Specifically, before law enforcement personnel would review any documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago office, they would be screened by a "Privilege Review Team" to determine if any were potentially subject to attorney-client privilege.
37% : In United States v. Nixon, concerning the Watergate tapes, the Supreme Court held, "When the ground for asserting privilege as to subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice."
33% : As he departed the presidency in 2021, Trump brought to his Florida residence more than three dozen boxes of documents that might be protected by federal criminal law.

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