Category: privilege

The Perils of Confusing ‘Privilege’ and ‘Victimhood’

Commentary Given the left’s recent push to redefine concepts such as “privilege” and “victimhood, let’s take a moment to examine the lives of two very different Americans. Consider Shelby Steele, whose paternal grandfather was born a slave. His father was a truck driver with a third-grade education, and his mother was a social worker. Steele…


Trump Drops Privilege Claims Over Nine Mar-a-Lago Documents

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has withdrawn privilege claims over certain documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago home, a Monday filing shows. The 3-page joint filing (pdf) dated Oct. 24 said the former president dropped his initial claims of executive and attorney-client privilege—a policy to contain presidential communications from disclosure—over a total of nine documents…