While the Constitution does not mention this secrecy power, the Supreme Court has recognized it as implicit in the founding charter.
The constitutional line between a president’s secrecy powers and Congress’s investigative authority is hazy, with few Supreme Court guideposts. Historically, such disputes have usually been resolved through compromise, not judicial rulings.
In a 1977 case challenging a law related to the control of White House files from the then-former Nixon administration, the Supreme Court said Nixon could make a claim of executive privilege even though he was out of office.
“We reject the argument that only an incumbent president may assert such claims, and hold that appellant, as a former president, may also be heard to assert them,” the court wrote.
In the 1977 case challenging the law about control of Nixon-era White House files, the Supreme Court noted that his successors — Gerald R. Ford at an earlier stage in the case, and Jimmy Carter by the end — did not support his claim. And despite saying Nixon was permitted to assert executive privilege as an ex-president, the court ruled against him.
Still, the court also suggested that Nixon might be able to block the release of some of his papers in the future. Nixon never sought to do so, however, and there has not been a Supreme Court case over access to specific information that involves an executive privilege disagreement between a current president and a predecessor.
Who the fucks knows? Maybe. Especially with this 5-4 right wing court.
Jesus, and who do we have to stand against them and their Frat Boy Minions?
The cast of ‘Stranger Things’ and the music of Metallica?
( I’m sure that even if the whole crew smoked the Pizza-van Weed, my ugly ass would get a Real hard pass…)
Sure, both Bannon and Trump would love the circus of Bannon “testifying” on live TV…but as romansperson posted, that’s not going to happen.
Some speculation holds that Bannon doesn’t even expect to be called for closed-door testimony. The entire “willing to testify” thing is pure theater, intended to demonstrate to the court (in his upcoming criminal trial for contempt of Congress) that he is “cooperative” and a great guy and should be given all kinds of leniency.
I guess the schadenfreude here is that Steve Bannon is scared enough to go to some effort to try to project a fake ‘cooperative’ image.
I only know Bannon from youtube clips and stuff like that. From what I’ve seen of this, con man in his own right, psychopath, he is going to have zero to add to any fucking thing.
Zero as it concerns reality.
Conspiritorial, paranoid, Land Of Make Believe myth- He’s got a buttload.
Lovely description (did you come up with that?), and maybe the best, since hearing about Donald Sterling’s face looking it just ate Mike Wallace’s. (which I believe is from Jon Stewart) (or possibly the deranged Sid Sixeiro)
Apropos of nothing, now I wonder if he layers on two or three sets of pajamas the same way he wears three or four dress shirts for some unfathomable reason.
He secretly read Vogue back in the 80’s and believed the model, who weighed 89 1/2 pounds, when she opined about how layers was slimming. I think I read that somewhere.
