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Judge Orders White House to Follow Records Law

Judge Orders White House to Follow Records Law

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The Trump DOJ's claim that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional is a dangerous power grab with no legal basis — nearly 50 years of precedent, Supreme Court rulings and bipartisan compliance prove Congress has every right to regulate presidential records. Letting any administration destroy or pocket official documents would gut public accountability and erase history. This law exists precisely because of what happens when presidents operate in the dark.

A federal judge rightly shut down the Trump administration's attempt to sidestep the Presidential Records Act, ruling the law is likely constitutional and that real risk of non-compliance already exists. Text messages on personal devices and records from the president and vice president were left dangerously unprotected under the White House's new guidance. Presidential records belong to the public, and no administration gets to rewrite that.


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