Noah Feldman, Columnist

Executive Privilege Won’t Save Trump From House Inquiry

The president’s ability to protect his sensitive discussions doesn’t apply to his campaign or informal advisers.

March 6, 2019 at 8:07 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

It’s not a magic shield.
Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg

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President Donald Trump has indicated that he may not want to comply with a series of 81 requests sent by the House Judiciary Committee as part of a strategy of full-on investigation of the president and his associates.

His reaction is understandable, but his ability to resist is much more limited than he seems to think.