executive privilege

Examples of executive privilege in the following topics:

• Executive Privilege

  • Executive privilege is the power claimed by the President to resist subpoenas and other interventions by other branches of government.
  • The Supreme Court addressed "executive privilege" in United States v.
  • The Clinton administration invoked executive privilege on fourteen occasions.
  • Correspondingly, the Bush administration invoked executive privilege on six occasions.
  • Analyze the application of executive privilege by the President since World War II

• The Expansion of Presidential Powers

  • The first is executive privilege, which allows the president to withhold from disclosure any communications made directly to the president in the performance of executive duties.
  • Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974) that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.
  • When President Bill Clinton attempted to use executive privilege regarding the Lewinsky scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v.
  • These cases established the legal precedent that executive privilege is valid, although the exact extent of the privilege has yet to be clearly defined.
  • Additionally, federal courts have allowed this privilege to radiate outward and protect other executive branch employees, but have weakened this protection for those executive branch communications that do not involve the president .

• The Burr Conspiracy

  • Burr's trial brought into question the ideas of executive privilege, state secrets privilege, and the independence of the executive branch of government.
  • He insisted that all relevant papers had been made available and that he was not subject to this writ because he held executive privilege.
  • He also argued that he should not be subject to the commands of the judiciary because the Constitution guaranteed the executive branch's independence from the judicial branch.

• The Executive Office of the President

  • The Executive Office of the President is comprised of a Chief of Staff, Counsel, Press Secretary, and other members assisting the President of the United States.
  • Therefore, controversy has emerged over the scope of the attorney–client privilege between the Counsel and the President.
  • It is clear, however, that the privilege does not apply in personal matters, such as impeachment proceedings; in such situations the President relies on a personal attorney for confidential legal advice.
  • New units within the EOP were created, some by statute, some by executive order of the president.
  • Distinguish the various key positions in the Executive Office and the roles and responsibilities of each

• Article IV

  • The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.
  • A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
  • The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

• Employee Promotions

  • Promotions can also carry increases in benefits, privileges, and prestige, although in some cases only the title changes.
  • In the private sector, promotion can include substantial salary increases, benefit increases, stock options, and various "perks," such as a bigger office or executive parking.

• Anarchism

  • The anti-authoritarian sections of the First International were the precursors of the anarcho-syndicalists, who sought to "replace the privilege and authority of the State" with the "free and spontaneous organization of labor. " In 1886, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labour Unions (FOTLU) of the United States and Canada unanimously set May 1st, 1886 as the date by which the eight-hour work day would become standard.
  • Four of the men were executed and a fifth committed suicide prior to his own execution.

• The 14th Amendment

  • No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  • But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
  • No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

• The Responsibilities of Account Executives

• Conflicts Between Managers and Shareholders

  • Typically, the CEO and other top executives are responsible for making decisions about high-level policy and strategy.
  • Typically, these people have the right to sell those shares, to vote on directors nominated by various boards, and many other privileges.