Posted on 06/19/2019 11:15:20 PM PDT by knighthawk
President Trump is within his rights to invoke executive privilege, including when it comes to former White House communications director Hope Hicks, according to Alan Dershowitz.
Congressional lawmakers often claim presidents are not "above the law" in many of these cases, but Congress itself is also not "above the law," Dershowitz told host Laura Ingraham on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle."
"Each branch of the government has a form of executive privilege," Dershowitz said Wednesday night. "The president is perfectly entitled to invoke executive privilege. If they think it goes too far ... let the courts decide.
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Assertion of the privilege belongs to the holder of the privilege, in this case, the President. He should seek a protective order from the courts if Hope Hicks agrees to testify voluntarily.
When are we gonna find out WHO benefited from the $17M that CONgress used to relieve it’s self of sexual harassment charges and WORSE!
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