Executive privilege is a legal principle that allows the Executive Branch to deny requests for information made by the Judicial or Legislative Branches, typically in the form of subpoenas. The point of executive privilege is to protect the private nature of candid discussions between the president and his advisors and to protect the internal discussions among Executive Branch officials in general, without having to worry about public scrutiny. Although the concept is not codified (expressly created by statute) it was utilized and developed by past presidents and later established in the Supreme Court Ruling in