How have other former presidents responded to congressional subpoenas?
that he didn’t have to testify in the court-martialing of a U.S. Navy doctor; he ultimately sent a deposition, but by then, the case had been dismissed. Meanwhile, Both during and after his tenure as president, Trump has fought congressional efforts to subpoena him or his documents., in which House committees sought from Trump’s accounting firm certain financial information about him and other family members.
The justices drew a distinction between information that would involve executive privilege and information that would not, noting that what was being sought from the accounting firm was personal and not subject to executive privilege. "We do not come to that conclusion lightly. The confidentiality of presidential communications is critical to the effective functioning of the presidency for the reasons that former President Trump presses, and his effort to vindicate that interest is itself a right of constitutional import. But our Constitution divides, checks, and balances power to preserve democracy and to ensure liberty. For that reason, the executive privilege for presidential communications is a qualified one that Mr.
These two cases suggest Trump would be on weak legal ground in opposing the subpoena, said James Robenalt, a lawyer at the firm Thompson Hine and an expert in separation of powers issues, including Watergate.
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