Sentence examples for privilege to block from inspiring English sources

President Obama has asserted executive privilege to block the subpoena.

After her mid-March appointment, she joined a legal team that has battled to restrict detainee rights and has invoked the so-called state secrets privilege to block lawsuits involving surveillance and torture.

In another case involving Congressional demands for testimony by administration officials, the White House said Wednesday that it was asserting executive privilege to block testimony by Karl Rove, the president's senior political adviser, and another aide, J. Scott Jennings, who have been subpoenaed in inquiries about the dismissal of federal prosecutors.

A California appeals court has ruled that the firm running the artistic estate of singer/ actor Bing Crosby can assert attorney-client privilege to block release of some documents.

Rubio had also been using his blue slip privilege to block the nomination of William Thomas.

No longer can he rely on "Executive Privilege" to block his own testimony.

Among a series of pivotal decisions, Judge Johnson delivered a setback to the president's efforts to limit the scope of the investigation, ruling that he could not invoke executive privilege or lawyer-client privilege in trying to block prosecutors from questioning his aides.

While he realized that history would forever link him to President Mikhail Gorbachev as half of the pair of bold leaders who ended the Cold War, his more pressing concern was that Russian bureaucrats who were loath "to give up their privileges" would try to block reform at every turn.

One ardent needle-exchange supporter, Senator Nia H. Gill, a Democrat, has vowed to use her privilege of "senatorial courtesy" to block nominees to various governmental entities when they are from her home county, Essex, and are supported by the Senate president, Richard J. Codey, also from Essex.

Judge Pressler was at the center of a controversy in 1983, when a state senator, Gerald Cardinale, invoked the privilege known as senatorial courtesy to block her reappointment to the Superior Court.

Dozens of amendments have come up for a vote, most of them relevant and substantive, some not so much — Jim DeMint of South Carolina's border-security amendment, filed expressly to sink another amendment, by Oregon's Ron Wyden, that would have ended the noxious senatorial privilege of placing secret holds to block nominations.