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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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            7 months ago

            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.

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                    It’s clear that you think that it was written in a vacuum without any historical context. That’s not how history works. It’s unclear why you are stuck on this particular hill.