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A<\/span> recent office of legal counsel memo<\/a> on executive privilege maintains that private advisers to a president can avoid responding to a subpoena by asserting the president\u2019s executive privilege. The ability of presidents to shield communications from public view through claims of executive privilege, whether their own or those of a senior adviser, was already a powerful tool<\/a> for presidents to avoid accountability. But if courts accept the OLC\u2019s new interpretation of presidential privilege, it will be substantially harder to call witnesses to testify before Congress or in court proceedings regarding possible wrongdoing by the presidents.<\/p>\n

Equipping presidents with extensive power to block witnesses in legal proceedings is a dangerous practice that invites corruption by presidents and their advisers. Consider the former White House counsel Don McGahn\u2019s 2019 refusal to testify<\/a> in response to a subpoena by the House judiciary committee in connection with the special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Donald Trump. McGahn didn\u2019t come up with that idea on his own. It was the Trump White House that sought to bar McGahn<\/a> from testifying through an assertion of a type of executive privilege known as \u201ctestimonial immunity.\u201d Ironically, Mueller was investigating whether Trump obstructed justice, among other things, by demanding<\/a> that McGahn fire Mueller himself. Trump\u2019s insistence that McGahn not testify, backed up by a 2019 OLC opinion<\/a>, effectively made the first Trump administration complicit in the very obstruction under investigation.<\/p>\n

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The then federal district court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ended up rejecting the claim of privilege and ordered<\/a> McGahn to testify. After the Trump administration appealed and judicial decisions flipped back and forth, the parties finally reached a settlement<\/a> permitting McGahn to testify behind closed doors. But it was too little too late for Congress. The case reminds us that assertions of privilege by presidential advisers are not legally well-established, but such assertions are unfortunately sufficient to throw sand in the gears and immobilize a congressional investigation.<\/p>\n

Other presidents have invoked claims of privilege regularly, but more often than not they are rejected by courts. Bill Clinton, for example, invoked it numerous times<\/a> unsuccessfully to try to avoid responding to questions from the special prosecutor Kenneth Starr as well as to avoid testifying in a lawsuit brought by Paula Jones. The court found<\/a> he had no immunity against a subpoena requiring him to appear at a deposition.<\/p>\n

Richard Nixon tried to invoke it<\/a> to avoid having to turn over the infamous White House tapes, but the supreme court ruled<\/a> he had to turn them over anyway. Even Thomas Jefferson and George Washington tried to invoke it<\/a> in one form or another. But where courts have ruled, such claims do not usually prevail.<\/p>\n

OLC\u2019s latest memo goes far beyond even the 2019 memo written to bolster the White House\u2019s block on McGahn. That memo justified testimonial immunity using the claim that senior aides to the president \u201care an extension of the President and are likewise entitled to absolute immunity from compelled congressional testimony\u201d. But that argument is inapplicable to private persons who consult with the president. While executive privilege and testimonial immunity are not identical, they are sufficiently alike that the rationale for their invocation is the same, and neither should apply to non-governmental advisers.<\/p>\n

The current memo is also concerning because of its lack of candor about the historical precedent for executive privilege. Consider what the memo says about the subpoena issued to Thomas Jefferson<\/a> in 1807 during the trial of Aaron Burr, when Burr subpoenaed Jefferson to obtain documents to prove his innocence. Jefferson refused to appear and invoked executive privilege. Chief Justice Marshall insisted there \u201cis no exception whatsoever\u201d to an accused\u2019s right to prove his innocence by seeking documents and testimony that would exempt him.<\/p>\n

Marshall did acknowledge<\/a> the existence of a \u201cprivilege to withhold certain official paper[s] that \u2018ought not on light ground to be forced into public view\u2019\u201d. But he did not believe the privilege applied.<\/p>\n

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The memo once again engages problematic legal reasoning when it discusses Nixon\u2019s bid to avoid turning over the tapes. The memo claims<\/a> the Nixon case shows that the court recognized \u201cthe privilege of confidentiality of Presidential communications\u201d, which \u201cderive[s] from the supremacy of each branch within its own assigned area of constitutional duties\u201d. And while Nixon certainly asserted such a right, in US v Nixon<\/a> the US supreme court vehemently rejected that contention<\/a> and denied Nixon\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

Commentators have speculated<\/a> that one of the likely explanations for the timing of the OLC memo is that the administration is getting ready for the House or Senate to change hands, and that the justice department is looking for a way to block the onslaught of investigations to follow. That the OLC would take an extreme position to further immunize presidents from congressional scrutiny is disturbing but hardly surprising. As with so many memos<\/a> in recent years, the OLC has abandoned all pretense of interpreting the law impartially. Courts should accord OLC opinions no weight whatsoever in future cases.<\/p>\n

Misrepresenting legal sources is a violation of the Rules of Professional Responsibility for lawyers<\/a>. The quality of OLC argumentation sets a standard for legal practice across the federal government, as well as in the private sector. It is critical for the profession to reject the sort of outcome-oriented analysis the OLC has engaged in here, and federal courts must play a role in ensuring such legal analysis does not become par for the course across the legal profession.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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