Quote (Goomshill @ Aug 12 2022 12:05am)
The courts would look at Navy v Egan which says that a president has virtually plenary authority to control classified information as derived from the constitution, which no congressional law can infringe, and EPA v Mink which says any congressional procedures on classified information would be limited by executive privilege. Or that all executive orders written to enforce such statutes naturally derive their authority from whichever president issued them. In short, its pretty simple case when its anyone other than a president. When its a president, its pretty clear under the precedents he has the full authority to classify or declassify, and to enforce such laws, because that's his constitutional prerogative. When its a former president and documents from his tenure- there's no existing law at all and nothing to draw upon and no authoritative legal theory.
Nevermind that the whole thing is premised on leakers from a politicized FBI trying to spin their most favorable light, and every one of these Trump bombshells coordinated by the FBI/NYT/WaPo for the past 6 years has borne out the same result again and again and again, so at least we can all forgo the part where we act surprised when it turns out we're literally talking about Kim Jong Un's crayon cartoon drawing a missile or a children's badge given to him for visiting NASA.
I mean, note how the FBI has been leaking like sieve throughout this process, just like the Comey McCabe era all over again. Hard to maintain that those involved in this warrant didn't have a political motive when they're going to the NYT and WaPo about it
you know they have been talking with team trump and even had a subpoena to return these.. The "FBI fueled leak" isn't what caused them to know he had taken his toilet readings home with him so they would become insta declassified.. or flush them.
Also Trump would have access to any information digitally. There was NO need for his souvenir's to be stored @ the golf course.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article264326491.htmlThis post was edited by theCrossbones on Aug 12 2022 10:14am