Pwnallthethings: Like, executive privilege is a lot of things, but it's not a 4A evidence exclusionary thing. It just ... isn't. It's entirely different worlds

Oh fun, I'm literally one paragraph in to the analysis in Trump v. US and my blood is already boiling

Guys you wanna... you wanna read that one back again a couple of times?

The analogy to the executive privilege cases is really weird?? Like, they're obviously separate matters...

This is the part that really caught me off guard in the opinion. Folks rightly focus on, well, the top-line. But this is just a complete misunderstanding of executive privilege or where it comes from, and is patently, grossly invented for one man and for one case

Like, executive privilege is a lot of things, but it's not a 4A evidence exclusionary thing. It just ... isn't. It's entirely different worlds

What is: things that happen with a results-based jurisprudence?

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