In addition there was a direct refusal by Mr. Emspak to claim privilege.
623, 1 L.Ed.2d 639 (1957), denied the Government's claimed privilege to withhold the identity of its informer, "John Doe," from the petitioner.
The Court finds support for its theory of 'intention' to claim privilege from a statement in the Government's brief in the Quinn case set out below.
1000, 93 L.Ed. 1264, where the Court characterized a witness' statement "I want to claim privilege as to anything that I say", 337 U.S. at page 142, 69 S.Ct. at page 1003, as a 'definite claim of general privilege against self-incrimination.' 337 U.S. at page 151, 69 S.Ct. at page 1007.
And yet, as John Yoo noted in The Wall Street Journal, in his five years in office Clinton has claimed privilege to withhold information from courts and Congress six times -- as often as Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush combined.
Religious minorities are free to disagree, and some still do, but their claimed privilege to discriminate will not be one shared — or even understood — by a growing majority of their fellow Americans.
The scope of the claimed privilege includes the character, causes, and consequences of the social inequalities that define the groups in question.
From 1547, if a peer or peeress was convicted of a crime, except treason or murder, he or she could claim "privilege of peerage" to escape punishment if it was their first offence.
She was right: the decision is opening the door for the religiously observant to claim privileges that are not available to anyone else.
