executive-privilege

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A144 Stephen K. Bannon v. United States District of Columbia 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete congressional-subpoena criminal-statute executive-privilege mens-rea separation-of-powers willful-conduct Whether the criminal statute 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires more than mere intentional conduct to prove the mens rea element of 'willfully' when a congressio…
23-1264 X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. United States District of Columbia 2024-06-03 Denied Amici (2) communications-provider electronic-communications executive-privilege first-amendment nondisclosure-order service-provider strict-scrutiny user-privacy warrant-service Whether an electronic communications service provider can be compelled to produce potentially privileged user communications before adjudication of th…
23A875 X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete executive-privilege first-amendment nondisclosure-order presidential-records-act prior-restraint stored-communications-act Whether the First Amendment and executive privilege protections limit the government's ability to obtain and enforce nondisclosure orders preventing a…
23-624 United States v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2023-12-11 Pending Amici (2) constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-prosecution due-process executive-immunity executive-privilege impeachment impeachment-clause presidential-immunity presidential-powers Whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from fe…
21-7806 Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP covid-19 executive-privilege glomar-response grand-jury mandamus marbury-vs-madison public-interest supreme-court-rules Whether a writ of mandamus can compel the convening of a grand jury
21-7578 Calvin Latimer v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process executive-privilege separation-of-powers standing tax-returns Whether the court has the authority to subpoena the President's tax returns
21-932 Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-23 Denied Amici (7) congressional-oversight constitutional-law executive-privilege preliminary-injunction presidential-records-act records-request separation-of-powers Whether the Committee's records request violates the Constitution or laws of the United States entitling President Trump to a preliminary injunction p…
21-6170 Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chevron-deference executive-order executive-privilege foia foia-request jacobson-v-massachusetts justiciable-issue public-health public-health-emergency separation-of-powers Whether the President's interest in confidentiality can be overcome by a FOIA request
20-827 United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege
19-715 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Mazars USA, LLP, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-05 Judgment Issued Amici (1) civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-authority due-process executive-privilege legislative-purpose separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority subpoena subpoena-power Whether the Committee has the constitutional and statutory authority to issue this subpoena