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Dude: I supported an argument you made earlier regarding executive privilege.
As a mater of plain history the words "executive privilege" can not be found in our Constitution. The Privilege has been invoked more times during the current administration than all of past history. Your comment about not wishing to mess with it was why I voted for it. I think, that when tested, it will be ripped from law, most previous Presidents backed down. It is worth remembering that since the beginning of the Republican Party they have held the Executive office for a big majority of the time.
There will be an inevitable backlash to the power grab from this current administration,
The historical tendency is to place an Executive of you partisan beliefs, and their power will be diminished due to what I see as a flagrant abuse of a power that really does not exist. I think that only Ike's use of it will be the only time it was looked upon favorably historically.

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