• blazera@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I aint no hypocrite, william barr is supposed to be in prison for contempt of congress for ignoring a subpoena. If Garland was subpoena’d, he’s subject to the same standards.

    Executive privilege is not written in law. But congress’s authority to subpoena, and hold violators in contempt, is.

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      7 months ago

      Executive privilege is not written in law.

      That’s because it’s common law. Plenty of court cases out there affirming this.

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          7 months ago

          Then entire basis of US law, except Louisiana, is English Common Law. The Constitution itself is based on that. I’m afraid that you might not like the result but this is how it works unless the constitution gets amended or replaced.

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              It doesn’t say anything about 18th century human rights philosophers either but it’s full of that too.

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                  6 months ago

                  Yes. It is. It’s assumed because that’s how the legal theories at the time it was written went.