Yeah, I don't care if it was Hussein, W, Clinton, Reagan, or even Lincoln or Washington.... Executive order doesn't supersede the Constitution. Executive privilege only applies to confidential information from the time when in office. Everything from when Trump "was" in office, is protected. So even if not in office right now, whatever was sealed them remains confidential. However if he's not in office now, then he can't just claim "executive privilege" to avoid being subpoenaed... granted if the subpoena involves anything from when he was in office, then privilege would still apply. I don't know about extending privilege to anyone else from the administration though... as far as I can recall, it's only ever applied to the Executive himself, not the entire branch.
I concur with Separation of Powers, but this concept of Executive Privilege was only originally intended to cover the President, and arguably certain executive officers (cabinet, ambassadors etc). Problem is that the Executive branch has grown (mostly illegally) into a behemoth, theoretically including thousands of "executives" if you include all of the (again, mostly illegal) agencies.
Yeah, I don't care if it was Hussein, W, Clinton, Reagan, or even Lincoln or Washington.... Executive order doesn't supersede the Constitution. Executive privilege only applies to confidential information from the time when in office. Everything from when Trump "was" in office, is protected. So even if not in office right now, whatever was sealed them remains confidential. However if he's not in office now, then he can't just claim "executive privilege" to avoid being subpoenaed... granted if the subpoena involves anything from when he was in office, then privilege would still apply. I don't know about extending privilege to anyone else from the administration though... as far as I can recall, it's only ever applied to the Executive himself, not the entire branch.
I concur with Separation of Powers, but this concept of Executive Privilege was only originally intended to cover the President, and arguably certain executive officers (cabinet, ambassadors etc). Problem is that the Executive branch has grown (mostly illegally) into a behemoth, theoretically including thousands of "executives" if you include all of the (again, mostly illegal) agencies.