Writ of Douchebaggery

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The Writ of Douchebaggery is a fictitious writ coined by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. It allows the invoker to refuse to produce testimony on ground that they are a douchebag.

While testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to turn over an important memo to the members of the committee, though he did not invoke executive privilege or anything else.

Shortly after this incident, Jon Stewart remarked: "Dude, I'm no lawyer, but you gotta invoke something: the Fifth Amendment, executive privilege, writ of douchebaggery–something..."

Stewart has also referred to the "Congressional Medal of Douchebaggery."

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• The Daily Show on which the phrase was coined