Barbara McQuade said that Trump's efforts would only serve to delay the Justice Department's investigative process.
"Trump's effort to block Pence's grand jury testimony with executive privilege will fail under Nixon precedent, but will cause further delay," McQuade wrote in a tweet."The ticking clock is getting louder.", in which the former president argued that the concept of executive privilege allowed him to withhold the confidential Watergate tapes from other government branches.
"We conclude that when the ground for asserting privilege as to subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice," Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote at the time.
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