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That could block #public #access to more than 700 million White House emails, among countless other records, in Archives possession since the #law went into effect in 1978, Baron said.
…The impact of the #DOJ opinion could be felt quickly by #historians, #scholars & #journalists who regularly access presidential records & make requests for their release.
#Trump #PresidentialRecordsAct #accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy
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The #Trump admin’s abrupt declaration that the federal #law governing presidential records for the past 48 yrs is #unconstitutional is creating confusion about access to records of past presidencies, including documents that are on the verge of public release.
The memo from the #DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, which challenges the #PresidentialRecordsAct, is intended to give #Trump the legal leeway to #destroy White House #records from his current term.
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The #Trump admin’s abrupt declaration that the federal #law governing presidential records for the past 48 yrs is #unconstitutional is creating confusion about access to records of past presidencies, including documents that are on the verge of public release.
The memo from the #DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, which challenges the #PresidentialRecordsAct, is intended to give #Trump the legal leeway to #destroy White House #records from his current term.
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The #Trump admin’s abrupt declaration that the federal #law governing presidential records for the past 48 yrs is #unconstitutional is creating confusion about access to records of past presidencies, including documents that are on the verge of public release.
The memo from the #DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, which challenges the #PresidentialRecordsAct, is intended to give #Trump the legal leeway to #destroy White House #records from his current term.
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The #Trump admin’s abrupt declaration that the federal #law governing presidential records for the past 48 yrs is #unconstitutional is creating confusion about access to records of past presidencies, including documents that are on the verge of public release.
The memo from the #DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, which challenges the #PresidentialRecordsAct, is intended to give #Trump the legal leeway to #destroy White House #records from his current term.
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The #Trump admin’s abrupt declaration that the federal #law governing presidential records for the past 48 yrs is #unconstitutional is creating confusion about access to records of past presidencies, including documents that are on the verge of public release.
The memo from the #DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, which challenges the #PresidentialRecordsAct, is intended to give #Trump the legal leeway to #destroy White House #records from his current term.
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#Trump admin’s challenge of #Watergate-era records #law alarms historians
Scholars warn that the #DOJ declaration that the #PresidentialRecordsAct is #unconstitutional could impact other admins.
#accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/white-house-records-olc-opinion-00859073 -
#Trump admin’s challenge of #Watergate-era records #law alarms historians
Scholars warn that the #DOJ declaration that the #PresidentialRecordsAct is #unconstitutional could impact other admins.
#accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/white-house-records-olc-opinion-00859073 -
#Trump admin’s challenge of #Watergate-era records #law alarms historians
Scholars warn that the #DOJ declaration that the #PresidentialRecordsAct is #unconstitutional could impact other admins.
#accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/white-house-records-olc-opinion-00859073 -
#Trump admin’s challenge of #Watergate-era records #law alarms historians
Scholars warn that the #DOJ declaration that the #PresidentialRecordsAct is #unconstitutional could impact other admins.
#accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/white-house-records-olc-opinion-00859073 -
#Trump admin’s challenge of #Watergate-era records #law alarms historians
Scholars warn that the #DOJ declaration that the #PresidentialRecordsAct is #unconstitutional could impact other admins.
#accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/white-house-records-olc-opinion-00859073 -
#DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public
In a sweeping new memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel, the DOJ claims the #PresidentialRecordsAct is unconstitutional. The department’s edict, which is already facing legal challenges, argues that a president’s records are private, rather than public, property. This is an extreme reinterpretation of executive power that seeks to undo nearly 50 years of transparency.
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/trump-documents-library-presidential-records-act/ -
The American Historical Association has filed a lawsuit challenging a recent Department of Justice memorandum declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The memo threatens transparency and record-keeping throughout the executive branch, including the National Archives.
This case is about whether the American people can access and learn from the records that document our nation’s history.
@histodons
#AmericanHistory
#PresidentialRecordsAct
#AmericanHistoricalAssociationhttps://www.historians.org/news/aha-files-lawsuit-to-defend-the-presidential-records-act/
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The American Historical Association has filed a lawsuit challenging a recent Department of Justice memorandum declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The memo threatens transparency and record-keeping throughout the executive branch, including the National Archives.
This case is about whether the American people can access and learn from the records that document our nation’s history.
@histodons
#AmericanHistory
#PresidentialRecordsAct
#AmericanHistoricalAssociationhttps://www.historians.org/news/aha-files-lawsuit-to-defend-the-presidential-records-act/
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The American Historical Association has filed a lawsuit challenging a recent Department of Justice memorandum declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The memo threatens transparency and record-keeping throughout the executive branch, including the National Archives.
This case is about whether the American people can access and learn from the records that document our nation’s history.
@histodons
#AmericanHistory
#PresidentialRecordsAct
#AmericanHistoricalAssociationhttps://www.historians.org/news/aha-files-lawsuit-to-defend-the-presidential-records-act/
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The American Historical Association has filed a lawsuit challenging a recent Department of Justice memorandum declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The memo threatens transparency and record-keeping throughout the executive branch, including the National Archives.
This case is about whether the American people can access and learn from the records that document our nation’s history.
@histodons
#AmericanHistory
#PresidentialRecordsAct
#AmericanHistoricalAssociationhttps://www.historians.org/news/aha-files-lawsuit-to-defend-the-presidential-records-act/
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The American Historical Association has filed a lawsuit challenging a recent Department of Justice memorandum declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The memo threatens transparency and record-keeping throughout the executive branch, including the National Archives.
This case is about whether the American people can access and learn from the records that document our nation’s history.
@histodons
#AmericanHistory
#PresidentialRecordsAct
#AmericanHistoricalAssociationhttps://www.historians.org/news/aha-files-lawsuit-to-defend-the-presidential-records-act/
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Trump’s Office Of Legal Counsel Says Trump Doesn’t Need To Follow The Presidential Records Rules
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The Guardian | Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds | Jan-Werner Müller by Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem
Last week, the Trump administration proudly published two pieces of news which, at first sight, could not be more different: one a dry 52-page legal opinion from the justice department declaring the 1978 Presidential Records Act unconstitutional; the other an AI-generated clip of Trump’s planned “presidential library”, a waterfront skyscraper in Miami. Both sent the same message, though: the legal opinion – authored by a jurist heavily involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 election – leaves Trump free to destroy evidence of wrongdoing; the building envisaged for Biscayne Bay appears to be less of a library than a hotel complex. As the president reassured anyone suspecting that he might fill a glitzy edifice with boring papers and books: “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.” These are clear signals about wanting to avoid accountability; it is not too early to devise strategies to counter politically motivated amnesia.
In what jurists widely saw as an opinion of breathtakingly bad faith, T Elliot Gaiser, the Ohio-based election denier and a former clerk of Samuel Alito, asserted that Congress had no right to ask the president to preserve records; the imperative to create and keep documents served “no legislative purpose” and could “impede” the day-to-day “performance” of the head of the executive. The act had been crafted in the wake of the misdeeds of Richard Nixon, who had wanted discretion over which of his tapes and papers to destroy; in response, Congress first passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act in 1974, making the government take custody of Nixon’s materials. Nixon sued; the supreme court rejected the view that the separation of powers had been violated; the justices also took the occasion to affirm the importance of “the American people’s ability to reconstruct and come to terms with their history”. Congress then passed the more general Presidential Records Act, which no one up until Trump appeared to have experienced as remotely burdensome.
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#donaldtrump #uspolitics #presidentialrecordsact #justicedepartment #2020election
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The Guardian | Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds | Jan-Werner Müller by Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem
Last week, the Trump administration proudly published two pieces of news which, at first sight, could not be more different: one a dry 52-page legal opinion from the justice department declaring the 1978 Presidential Records Act unconstitutional; the other an AI-generated clip of Trump’s planned “presidential library”, a waterfront skyscraper in Miami. Both sent the same message, though: the legal opinion – authored by a jurist heavily involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 election – leaves Trump free to destroy evidence of wrongdoing; the building envisaged for Biscayne Bay appears to be less of a library than a hotel complex. As the president reassured anyone suspecting that he might fill a glitzy edifice with boring papers and books: “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.” These are clear signals about wanting to avoid accountability; it is not too early to devise strategies to counter politically motivated amnesia.
In what jurists widely saw as an opinion of breathtakingly bad faith, T Elliot Gaiser, the Ohio-based election denier and a former clerk of Samuel Alito, asserted that Congress had no right to ask the president to preserve records; the imperative to create and keep documents served “no legislative purpose” and could “impede” the day-to-day “performance” of the head of the executive. The act had been crafted in the wake of the misdeeds of Richard Nixon, who had wanted discretion over which of his tapes and papers to destroy; in response, Congress first passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act in 1974, making the government take custody of Nixon’s materials. Nixon sued; the supreme court rejected the view that the separation of powers had been violated; the justices also took the occasion to affirm the importance of “the American people’s ability to reconstruct and come to terms with their history”. Congress then passed the more general Presidential Records Act, which no one up until Trump appeared to have experienced as remotely burdensome.
Continue reading...
#donaldtrump #uspolitics #presidentialrecordsact #justicedepartment #2020election
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The Guardian | Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds | Jan-Werner Müller by Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem
Last week, the Trump administration proudly published two pieces of news which, at first sight, could not be more different: one a dry 52-page legal opinion from the justice department declaring the 1978 Presidential Records Act unconstitutional; the other an AI-generated clip of Trump’s planned “presidential library”, a waterfront skyscraper in Miami. Both sent the same message, though: the legal opinion – authored by a jurist heavily involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 election – leaves Trump free to destroy evidence of wrongdoing; the building envisaged for Biscayne Bay appears to be less of a library than a hotel complex. As the president reassured anyone suspecting that he might fill a glitzy edifice with boring papers and books: “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.” These are clear signals about wanting to avoid accountability; it is not too early to devise strategies to counter politically motivated amnesia.
In what jurists widely saw as an opinion of breathtakingly bad faith, T Elliot Gaiser, the Ohio-based election denier and a former clerk of Samuel Alito, asserted that Congress had no right to ask the president to preserve records; the imperative to create and keep documents served “no legislative purpose” and could “impede” the day-to-day “performance” of the head of the executive. The act had been crafted in the wake of the misdeeds of Richard Nixon, who had wanted discretion over which of his tapes and papers to destroy; in response, Congress first passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act in 1974, making the government take custody of Nixon’s materials. Nixon sued; the supreme court rejected the view that the separation of powers had been violated; the justices also took the occasion to affirm the importance of “the American people’s ability to reconstruct and come to terms with their history”. Congress then passed the more general Presidential Records Act, which no one up until Trump appeared to have experienced as remotely burdensome.
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#donaldtrump #uspolitics #presidentialrecordsact #justicedepartment #2020election
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What keeps the #HouseOversightCommittee (aside from the #GovernmentShutdown) to subpoena #DonaldTrump's and #PamBondi's #TruthSocial DMs to be archived by the #NationAlarchives?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcIh7RFRk0
https://piped.video/watch?v=wfcIh7RFRk0
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wfcIh7RFRk0
#GovernmentShutdown2025 #uspol #politics #VindictiveProsecution #BadFaithProsecution #JamesComeyIndictment #LetitiaJamesIndictment #JamesComey #LetitiaJames #Trump #DepartmentOfJustice #PresidentialRecordsAct
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Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22)
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html#MAGA #TrumpCoup #TrumpRegime #PresidentialRecordsAct #Signalgate #securitybreach #nationalsecurity #hegseth #FireHegseth
They are all guilty of collusion to destroy official records when they got onto Signal.
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Judge Cannon SLAPPED with Removal DEMAND…From GOP?!! - https://youtu.be/95oGrGIjq8k?si=b4blWrKP6pX_oQkV #vote2024 #2024vote #2024Election #election2024 #USPolitics #USElection #USElection2024 #LegalAF #MeidasTouch #MeidasTouchNews #MichaelPopok #JudgeCannon #AileenCannon #MarALagoDocumentsCase #Florida #TrumpDocumentsCase #MarALago #ClassifiedDocumentsCase #PresidentialRecordsAct
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👀 It is only through the #luck of the draw that #trump would see his #classifieddocuments case fall before #JudgeCannon. Yet that has opened her up to an entirely different set of #criticisms. That includes her frankly #bizarredecision to have the #defense spend time on #jury instructions and arguments regarding the #PresidentialRecordsAct rather than deal with the more pressing issues on her plate.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-florida-trial-delay-judge-cannon-rcna151049
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It should also be noted that the #PresidentialRecordsAct (PRA) is a #CIVIL #law.
The PRA is from Title 44 of the #UnitedStates Code (USC) which has to do w/the role of public printing & #documents.
The #PRA is Chpt 22 of 44 USC & has 9 sections: §2201-2209
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#judgecannon has ruled against trump’s lawyers’ bid to dismiss the case based on the #presidentialrecordsact.
She has also ruled against Jack Smith’s bid to have her drop her unbelievable jury instructions.
#JackSmith is expected to go to the 11th circuit, so stick around for an update on that.
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#Trump in court for hearing on #ClassifiedDocuments charges
Trump lawyers tried to convince federal Judge #AileenCannon to throw out the charges against him.
Judge Cannon heard from prosecutors & defense lawyers about Trump’s [BS] claim that he is protected from prosecution by the #PresidentialRecordsAct.
#NationalSecurity #law experts say Trump’s arguments about the records act misstate the law. -
@GottaLaff It’s such a shame federal courthouses don’t allow TV. I can’t wait to hear the reports of how #trumps #PresidentialRecordsAct defense goes down with actual lawyers involved.
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The criminal ‘documents’ case against Trump is in the news today and he is asking #JudgeCannon (Trump appointee) to indefinitely delay trial by claiming, in part, there are “novel” issues of “first impression” involving the #PresidentialRecordsAct (PRA).
Fact: The records at issue are agency records.
Fact: The PRA specifically exempts agency records from its scope.Alas, a depressing number of people have guzzled Trump kool-aid and will believe his BS.
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CW: last guy (US)
I'm glad the last guy keeps digging himself deeper and deeper with the documents and the #PresidentialRecordsAct.
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Donald Trump is lying about the Presidential Records Act
#DonaldTrumpLies #PresidentialRecordsAct #PresidentialTransparency #GovernmentAccountability #EthicsInGovernment #PresidentialDocumentRetention #Politics #News
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#Republicans say there's a “double standard” in the #JusticeDepartment prosecuting fmr Pres #DonaldTrump for #ClassifiedDocuments & not #JoeBiden. In my 3rd #VideoEssay, I talk about the timeline of the #FBI invest into #Trump, #Biden's documents, #MikePence's documents, how each case differs, & what laws that are involved w/ Trump’s #indictment.
#news #politics #video #Pence #NationalArchives #PresidentialRecordsAct #EspionageAct #DepartmentOfJustice #MaraLagoRaid
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#Republicans say there's a “double standard” in the #JusticeDepartment prosecuting fmr Pres #DonaldTrump for #ClassifiedDocuments & not #JoeBiden. In my 3rd #VideoEssay, I talk about the timeline of the #FBI invest into #Trump, #Biden's documents, #MikePence's documents, how each case differs, & what laws that are involved w/ Trump’s #indictment.
#news #politics #video #Pence #NationalArchives #PresidentialRecordsAct #EspionageAct #DepartmentOfJustice #MaraLagoRaid
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https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2022/nr22-001 Presidential Records Act “requires that all records created by Presidents (and Vice-Presidents) be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) at the end of their administrations," NARA wrote in a rare public statement a rebuke to Trump’s claims that the act allows him to keep classified material past the end of his term #presidentialrecordsact #TrumpLiesAllTheTime separate personal documents from Presidential records before leaving office
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Fmr Pres #DonaldTrump is NO STRANGER to the court room, being a defendant in criminal & civil cases over 60 TIMES! This is NOT a "witch hunt!" The #indictment is NOT a "biased abuse of power!" #JoeBiden did NOT influence the #JusticeDepartment & the #DOJ has NOT been weaponized to attack #Trump!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump
#News #politics #TrumpIndictment #ClassifiedDocuments, #NationalArchives #FBI
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The 44-page #indictment outlines some pretty damning evidence against former President #DonaldTrump. It shows that #Trump KNEW he had #ClassifiedDocuments, purposely kept them from the #NationalArchives and #FBI, and was knowingly showing them to people who did not have clearance.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1181505130/what-we-know-about-the-trump-indictment-so-far
#news #politics #TrumpIndictment #TrumpisaCriminal #TrumpIndictment #MaralagoFBIraid #Maralago #espionage #DOJ #JusticeDepartment #PresidentialRecordsAct #ObstructionOfJustice #MaraLago
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How does Christina Bobb ever expect to work again as a lawyer when she clearly has NO UNDERSTANDING of the law.
#PresidentialRecordsAct #Trump #TrumpIsACriminal #RWLiars #ChristinaBoob
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How does Christina Bobb ever expect to work again as a lawyer when she clearly has NO UNDERSTANDING of the law.
#PresidentialRecordsAct #Trump #TrumpIsACriminal #RWLiars #ChristinaBoob
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How does Christina Bobb ever expect to work again as a lawyer when she clearly has NO UNDERSTANDING of the law.
#PresidentialRecordsAct #Trump #TrumpIsACriminal #RWLiars #ChristinaBoob
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How does Christina Bobb ever expect to work again as a lawyer when she clearly has NO UNDERSTANDING of the law.
#PresidentialRecordsAct #Trump #TrumpIsACriminal #RWLiars #ChristinaBoob
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How does Christina Bobb ever expect to work again as a lawyer when she clearly has NO UNDERSTANDING of the law.
#PresidentialRecordsAct #Trump #TrumpIsACriminal #RWLiars #ChristinaBoob
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Trump Suggests He Knowingly Took Documents From White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/us/politics/trump-documents-white-house.html
#NYTimes #TrumpWhiteHouseDocuments #PresidentialRecordsAct #ExecutivePrivilege #GovernmentTransparency #Accountability #Politics #News