What do you think gives them that power?
Perhaps you need to take a civics class.
Executive Privilege:
Executive privilege is the power of the
President of the United States and other members of the
executive branch of the
United States Government to resist certain
subpoenas and other interventions by the
legislative and
judicial branches of government in pursuit of information or personnel relating to confidential communications that would impair governmental functions. The power of
Congress or the
federal courts to obtain such information is not mentioned explicitly in the
United States Constitution, nor is there any explicit mention in the Constitution of an executive privilege to resist such requests from Congress or courts.
[1] The
Supreme Court of the United States has ruled this privilege may qualify as an element of the
separation of powers doctrine, derived from the supremacy of the executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity.
[2]
The Supreme Court confirmed the legitimacy of this doctrine in
United States v. Nixon in the context of a subpoena emanating from the judiciary, instead of emanating from Congress.
[3] The Court held that there is a qualified privilege, which once invoked, creates a presumption of privilege, and
the party seeking the documents must then make a "sufficient showing" that the "Presidential material" is "essential to the justice of the case".
Pay particular attention to that last part,
"essential to the justice of the case"...... two years, 30 million dollars, no collusion, no obstruction of justice.......
Think of this as Trump kicking dirt in your face, the Democrats having been lying about all of this since Nov of 2016...... so this is Trump basically going...
