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Showing posts with label Presidential Records Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidential Records Act. Show all posts
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026
White House must comply with Presidential Records Act, judge rules - POLITICO
A court ordered Trump aides to ignore a Justice Department opinion that said the records law is unconstitutional…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/trump-records-judge-00930190
Monday, May 4, 2026
Blanche’s Audition Tape (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)
Two government watchdogs are suing the Justice Department over its Office of Legal Counsel memo that declares the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional.
The US Attorney in the Eastern District of North Carolina has filed charges against James Comey for sharing a photo of seashells that spell out 8647.
The Government Accountability Office and the Office of the Inspector General are investigating the Department of Justice's compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was not designated a National Special Security Event by the US Secret Service.
Plus listener questions.
Interview:
The US Attorney in the Eastern District of North Carolina has filed charges against James Comey for sharing a photo of seashells that spell out 8647.
The Government Accountability Office and the Office of the Inspector General are investigating the Department of Justice's compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was not designated a National Special Security Event by the US Secret Service.
Plus listener questions.
Interview:
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Historians sue DOJ over presidential records opinion : NPR
"This latest case is just another example of the utter contempt with which they hold not just history but the rights of their fellow citizens to hold them to account," he said, about the current administration...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/g-s1-117887/trump-justice-department-presidential-records-lawsuit
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Monday, April 8, 2024
Judge Cannon Made FATAL ERROR, Now DO SOMETHING JACK
Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo discuss and debate on the Legal AF podcast: whether Special Counsel Jack Smith will finally seek to have Judge Cannon removed from the Mar a Lago case by the appellate court.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Jack Smith destroys Judge Aileen Cannon’s jury instructions order in Trump’s documents case
The Trump-appointed judge is on the verge of being appealed in the former president's classified documents case. She's apparently contemplating a Trumpian fringe legal theory...
Sunday, March 24, 2024
SLOPPY Judge Cannon’s Latest Move FINAL STRAW for Prosecutors
Will Judge Cannon’s latest fundamental blunder to have the JURY decide the law that applies and NOT THE JUDGE lead to her REMOVAL from the Trump espionage/obstruction criminal case known as “Mar a Lago” or not? Michael Popok explains the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ “lemon law” and how it could be applied here to get her off the case and the case tried before Election Day.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Monday, July 24, 2023
Monday, October 3, 2022
Trump staffers not returning White House records, National Archives says | Reuters
"Former President Trump and his senior staff have shown an utter disregard for the rule of law and our national security by failing to return presidential records as the law requires," Maloney, whose committee shared a copy of the letter with Reuters, said in a statement...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Donald Trump’s ‘Special Master’ Delay Is Already Backfiring
…For example, previous court filings disclosed that investigators recovered documents showing that "certain pages of presidential records had been torn up," a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2071 that bars anyone from ever again holding a political office in the United States. Those same documents could also support the other federal charge they're considering against the former president, 18 U.S. Code § 1519, because the feds "developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the [Mar-a-Lago] storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation." That second criminal charge carries the threat of a 20-year prison sentence…
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Republicans foolishly try to roll out the ‘what about Obama’ tack
…This need not be complicated: Obama worked with the National Archives; Trump worked around the National Archives...
Thursday, August 11, 2022
FBI searched Trump’s home seeking classified presidential records – sources
…The justice department is understood, at some point since the investigation was opened in April this year, to have asked for the return of classified materials. Trump's lawyers are understood to have agreed, and indicated they would go through the boxes to comply with the request.
But that otherwise cordial channel of communication appears to have somehow gone awry – prompting the justice department to take the aggressive step of seeking a search warrant to seize documents…
How the FBI knew what to search for at Mar-a-Lago – and why the Presidential Records Act is an essential tool for the National Archives and future historians
The act, first passed in 1978, says administrations have to retain"any documentary materials relating to the political activities of the President or members of the President's staff, but only if such activities relate to or have a direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President."…
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Key detail undermines argument Trump declassified documents found at Mar-a-Lago - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
"Strictly speaking, even if Trump ordered the declassification of the records (verbally or in writing), what is likely to matter for purposes of handling and storing the records after he left the White House was if the mandatory follow-on actions occurred. Classified documents have classification markings in the header and footer of each page, indicating the level of classification for the document as a whole," they noted. "If Trump did in fact order the declassification, he still needed to make sure his staff took the necessary next steps to modify the classification markings on the documents before he could actually handle and store the records (as a private citizen) as if they were unclassified. Under security classification rules, a classification marking on a document has to be treated as valid and binding unless and until a subsequent marking replaces it. Appropriate government staffers would have needed to cross out the classification markings in the headers and footers, and stamped 'declassified' on the record noting when it was declassified, by whom and under what authority. Since that does not appear to have been done with the classified documents reportedly identified to date, the documents remain classified and had to be treated as classified for handling and storage purposes."
FBI search of Mar-a-Lago helps show how probe of Trump documents has changed - The Washington Post
"One person familiar with the investigation said agents were conducting a court-authorized search as part of a long-running examination into why documents — some of them top-secret — were taken to the former president's private club and residence instead of shipped to the National Archives and Records Administration when Trump left office. The Presidential Records Act requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president's official duties."
And, this article states, earlier, boxes of top secret documents — you know, like those involving National security, were found to be stored in an unlocked basement of his resort, which employs and hosts hundreds of foreign nationals.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Republicans Who Railed About Clinton Emails Are Quiet on Trump’s Records - The New York Times
Republicans once attacked Hillary Clinton for her handling of government records. But few showed outrage over news about former President Donald J. Trump's White House records...
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