POLSCI 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dick Cheney, Executive Privilege, State Secrets Privilege

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 389
• Professor: Lynn Rivers

Document Summary

School shooting in fl: response will affect support of trump and republican party, daca, trump refuses to sign daca bill, veto threat, immigration is big issue trump campaigned on, chicken contest: who will blink first. Scaramucci tweets: white house scrambling to deal with abuse charges, congress has gotten involved: schedule investigation on white house security clearance policy (several of trump admin have not gotten security clearance, oversight powers. It"s very, very hard for congress to enforce its subpoenas against an executive branch bent on asserting executive privilege. Congress"s real recourse is to use politics to cause harm to the administration to get them to do what congress wants it to do. Admin claimed executive privilege: dc circuit court left to decide whether the admin could claim executive privilege. Facts: watergate scandal/recorded tapes: da requested tapes from nixon, nixon exerts absolute executive privilege, claiming that watergate was only to be dealt within the executive branch.