I'm pretty sure this is referring to records in the archive, not actual personal records that the President has in his possession. If they are in his possession, they're personnal property and these laws do not apply.
Not only that, but 2012 case law renders the definitions outlined in the PRA a moot point, so they can't even charge him based on that because any records he took with him when he left office are his personal records.
Yes. That refers to the records maintained by NARA.
However, this is incorrect.
If they are in his possession, they're personnal property and these laws do not apply.
The presidential records access presidential records are the property of the United States government and when a president leaves office, this legal custodian is the national archives.
What it boils down to is the administrative Deep State wanting one thing, and the President wanting another. They are pissed as hell that he declassified things they wanted classified, moved documents they wanted buried, Cruise Missiled people they wanted alive, declined wars they wanted fought, and investigated crimes they wanted hidden.
Every single one of these things is easily within the President's authority, and usually left to unelected bureaucrats to decide (because the elected President is usually a puppet).
They are trying to make his life hell to ensure neither he nor anyone else makes up their own mind ever again. Whether or not he had the authority is not really in question, the process of lawfare is the punishment.
(2) The term "Presidential records" means documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, the President’s immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise or assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term--
A) includes 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; but
B) does not include any documentary materials that are (i) official records of an agency (as defined in section 552(e) of title 5, United States Code; (ii) personal records; (iii) stocks of publications and stationery; or (iv) extra copies of documents produced only for convenience of reference, when such copies are clearly so identified.
I'm pretty sure this is referring to records in the archive, not actual personal records that the President has in his possession. If they are in his possession, they're personnal property and these laws do not apply.
Not only that, but 2012 case law renders the definitions outlined in the PRA a moot point, so they can't even charge him based on that because any records he took with him when he left office are his personal records.
Exactly. A total sham like everything else these POS communists represent.
Yes. That refers to the records maintained by NARA.
However, this is incorrect.
The presidential records access presidential records are the property of the United States government and when a president leaves office, this legal custodian is the national archives.
What it boils down to is the administrative Deep State wanting one thing, and the President wanting another. They are pissed as hell that he declassified things they wanted classified, moved documents they wanted buried, Cruise Missiled people they wanted alive, declined wars they wanted fought, and investigated crimes they wanted hidden.
Every single one of these things is easily within the President's authority, and usually left to unelected bureaucrats to decide (because the elected President is usually a puppet).
They are trying to make his life hell to ensure neither he nor anyone else makes up their own mind ever again. Whether or not he had the authority is not really in question, the process of lawfare is the punishment.
Now...who are the less than 10 ppl who have copies of ALL of it?
"We have it all"
what classifies a document as a "Presidential record"?
From: https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.html#2201