Reading Room Document

Executive Privilege

This opinion outlines the doctrine of executive privilege as it relates to requests from congressional committees for executive branch information and documents, including historical precedents and recent practices. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/1225981/download.

May 23, 1977