Associate Professors Ramona Albin and Matt Woodham have co-authored a new article for the St. John's Law Review titled “Gilded Executive Privilege: The Unstated Evidentiary Rule in Trump v. United States.” 

In this timely and thought-provoking piece, they examine an underexplored aspect of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling—its sweeping evidentiary decision limiting the admissibility of official acts evidence in the prosecution of a former president’s private conduct. 

They argue that this decision introduces what they call a “gilded executive privilege”— an unstated, absolute and unwaivable evidentiary shield with far-reaching consequences for accountability and the future of presidential immunity. 

The full article, which has become one of the top 10 most downloaded evidence articles of the last few weeks, may be found here.