{"id":37640,"date":"2019-11-29T21:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T02:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37640"},"modified":"2019-11-29T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T02:44:34","slug":"how-much-privacy-is-a-president-entitled-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37640","title":{"rendered":"How Much Privacy Is A President Entitled To?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot Air<\/a> posted an article today about the ongoing court battle regarding the Congressional subpoena of former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Counsel McGahn was summoned by the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the time he worked for President Trump.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Whether or not he would appear was a bone of contention for a while until a federal judge issued a dramatic proclamation<\/a> on Monday, stating that \u201cPresidents are not kings\u201d and ordering McGahn to appear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, that lasted for all of three days. By Wednesday evening, that same judge had backed down<\/a>, allowing a request from the Justice Department to delay the implementation of the ruling until the appeals process has played out. Of course, this doesn\u2019t mean McGahn (and the President) are totally off the hook, but they\u2019ve at least bought a bit of breathing room. (Daily Mail)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean that the final decision on McGahn won\u2019t cast a long shadow, however. How this plays out will have consequences for the ongoing impeachment circus. At issue here is the question of whether or not aides to the President are shielded from revealing details of private conversations they\u2019ve had with the boss or the counsel they offered. Also, whether or not that shielding lasts indefinitely even after they\u2019ve left their positions with the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That sort of privacy has long been assumed to be part of the President\u2019s executive privilege. But does that extend to investigations of potential criminal conduct? That\u2019s the question that will be answered when the dust settles on McGahn\u2019s subpoena. If he\u2019s ordered to show up and testify, that could open the gate for numerous other Trump aides to be called in to talk about all of the Ukraine events. And that\u2019s likely not something President Trump will want to see after we\u2019re in the thick of the final push to next year\u2019s election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I guess my question is whether or not the President has the same civil rights as ordinary citizens, If you are an ordinary citizen, your conversations with your lawyer are protected by law. We saw this Constitutional principle violated when Michael Cohen’s offices were raided. Now the question is whether or not we are going to continue to violate President Trump’s Constitutional rights. All of us need to remember–if the President does not have Constitutional rights, then none of us have Constitutional rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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