Zachary Miller v. Laxeshkumar Patel, M.D.

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• holding that the deputy Attorney General and the Attorney General are not “close presidential advisors” whose communications automatically fall within the purview • of the presidential communications privilege
• concluding that because the requester was not entitled to a fee waiver, the agency properly refused to process further document requests without payment of the $250 fee
• holding that the presidential communications privilege does not apply to executive agency staffers’ advice regarding a non-delegable presidential duty where the staffers were “twice removed” from the President
• recognizing that “communications directly involving and documents actually viewed by the President” are privileged
• noting that “these types of personal records are unlikely to shed light on the Department’s conduct in the pardoning process”
• noting that whether President must personally invoke presidential communications privilege remains an open question

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