Noun
executive privilege (uncountable)
(US) The right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications and to resist certain subpoenas and other oversight.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. Sam Ervin
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has. Jacob Lew
He pointed out that if Mr. McGahn did show up but Mr. Trump then invoked executive privilege to block him from answering specific questions, the same matter would end up right back in court. Source: Internet
In the 1970s, President Ford asserted executive privilege over national security letters relating to wiretaps that a congressional committee had subpoenaed from AT&T. Source: Internet
Cox immediately subpoenaed the tapes, as did the Senate, but Nixon refused to release them, citing his executive privilege as president, and ordered Cox to drop his subpoena. Source: Internet
If the Senate fails to subpoena Bolton — and Trump said Friday in an interview on Fox that he might invoke executive privilege to block Bolton’s testimony — Pelosi said it was “not excluded” that the House might then move to subpoena him. Source: Internet