DOJ, rejecting decades-old law, says Trump can keep his presidential records

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Source: ABC News

Donald Trump does not need to turn over his presidential records to the National Archives, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel concluded in an opinion this week.

Rejecting a decades-old law enacted after the Watergate scandal to ensure the preservation of presidential records, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser stated that the Presidential Records Act was unconstitutional and "untethered from any valid and identifiable legislative purpose."

"The PRA exceeds the oversight power because it serves no identifiable and valid legislative purpose. It exceeds any preservation power because Congress cannot preserve presidential records merely for the sake of posterity," the 52-page opinion said.

Coming one day after Trump unveiled a first look at his planned presidential library, the opinion -- if adopted by the Trump administration -- could upend the established process for ensuring the public ownership of presidential records. After his first term in office, Trump was accused of violating the Presidential Records Act by storing boxes of sensitive presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate.



Read more: https://abcnews.com/US/doj-rejecting-decades-law-trump-presidential-records/story?id=131668575

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The justice department (i.e. tRump's personal lawyers) are telling him he doesn't need to follow the law.

[MIGuy]

1. Why does congress enact laws?

What is the point if someone appointed by the jerk in the white house can dismiss them? Please, let's go back to being a country under the rule of law.

[House of Roberts]

2. The DOJ 'opinion' carries no weight.

It merely states the assertions they will argue in court when the inevitable lawsuit to force him to turn over the records occurs.

[radical noodle]

3. This must be stopped

He's hiding the records of his crimes against the US.

[70sEraVet]

4. "Hiding the records of his crimes" has been the only success thus far....

of his Presidency.

[radical noodle]

5. That and replacing competent people with the incompetent n/t

[travelingthrulife]

6. And rewriting his criminal history.

[ChicagoTeamster]

7. What law did they base this on?

[bluestarone]

8. I so look forward to the day that his

Blood stops flowing through his veins!!

[snot]

9. I hope the ACLU et al. are filing lots of lawsuits lately,

including about this.