What is presidential privilege?

Answer 1

The president has the power to veto bills. There is standard veto, where he votes down the bill. Pocket veto, where he ignores it. And Line Item Veto, where the president votes down parts of a bill, but passes other parts.

Line Item isn't allowed anymore, though it should be. Sometimes congress attaches a smaller bill with a big one, they don't even have to be related, but if the president wants to pass the bigger bill but not the smaller one, he has no choice. They either BOTH get vetoed or BOTH get passed.

The president also has the power to activate troops for 60 days without concent of congress.

He has the power to appoint judges. However, they have to be accepted by congress which can be difficult if the congress is divided, meaning that either house has a majority of supporters for one political party, and the president supports the other. (Such as 2007, Bush was republican while Democrats were majority in house AND senate..which is a reason why Obama is predicted to do more for our country, Congress will ALLOW him to do more for our country.. they agree.)

The president can choose his own cabinent, but really they are just advisers. They don't have any big powers.

The president is the symbol of our country. He also has to live up to that rep.

He has the power to grant pardon. Usually they do it at the end of there term (Bush would be doing it right now.) It is where they chose to pardon, or not pardon someone for crimes (such as treason, murder, war crimes, etc.), and therefore they would be excused of that.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. . -Miranda

Answer 2

The presidential privilege is known as the executive privilege. The executive privilege gives the president to withhold information from the courts and Congress.