https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-says-trump-not-turn-presidential-records-rcna266434https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-presidential-records-act-unconstitutional/Washington — The Justice Department said that a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal that requires the president to preserve certain documents and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of his administration is unconstitutional.The opinion from Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser, who leads the Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that the Presidential Records Act exceeds Congress' power and "aggrandizes the legislative branch" at the expense of the independence of the executive branch.Gaiser, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, wrote that as a result of his determination that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional, President Trump does not need to comply with it."The PRA is not a valid exercise of Congress's Article I authority and unconstitutionally intrudes on the independence and autonomy of the President guaranteed by Article II," he found. "The Act establishes a permanent and burdensome regime of congressional regulation of the Presidency untethered from any valid and identifiable legislative purpose."The Office of Legal Counsel decision on the constitutionality of the records law was made public Thursday and first reported by Axios.The Presidential Records Act was enacted in 1978, four years after President Richard Nixon's resignation. The law established that presidential records belong to the U.S. government, not the president personally, and must be preserved. When a president leaves office, the Presidential Records Act requires material to be turned over to the National Archives, which maintains the documents.
The measure governs the records of the president, vice president and certain parts of the Executive Office of the President, like the National Security Council, and sets out requirements for the maintenance, access and preservation of information during and after a presidency.Under the law, the White House must preserve material relating to certain political activities and information regarding the president's duties, including emails, text messages and phone records. But it excludes the president's personal records, which are documents of a "purely private or nonpublic character."The Presidential Records Act has no enforcement mechanism, but Mr. Trump repeatedly invoked the law after he was indicted in 2023 on charges stemming from his alleged mishandling of sensitive government records after the end of his first term in January 2021. In a case pursued by then-special counsel Jack Smith, Mr. Trump was accused of keeping classified documents at his South Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, after repeatedly rebuffing demands from the National Archives that he turn them over. Mr. Trump denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he was allowed to keep all of the material under the records law. The case eventually ended after he won a second term in the White House last November.The Office of Legal Counsel provides the president and federal agencies with advice on legal questions, and its opinions bind the executive branch. But if a court reaches a different interpretation of a legal question, that determination prevails.
I'm beginning to think Republicans might be corrupt.
Whether it's the economy, the country, or your underage daughter; Republicans just want to fuck things till they're broken. They've done it my entire life.
>>1502982>The opinion from Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser,This guy is a 36 year old Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society wacko and former podcaster who got appointed Ohio Solicitor General and then helped Trump with his 2020 election denial.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Elliot_Gaiser
>>1502982Ziggers have struck a Veterinary Clinic in the Kyiv Region, killing up to 20 animals.
>>1503001Did he wear women's clothing and get caught stealing women's luggage on multiple occasions though?>Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
>>1502995Don't worry about itThey're not using the FBI as a personal retrieval service like the last president, who used the 3 letter agency to collect his Son's laptop, or his daughter's diary.
>>1503022You know, I think the showers with Joe are oft forgotten. Overshadowed by Hunter Biden's penis, most likely since he has a massive cock and that what Democraps what everyone to focus on instead of the Ukrainian corruption where he whored his son out for a cut.
>>1503026Yeah I don't get why they fixated on the Hunter dick pics when there was emails about influence peddling and "10% for the big guy held by H"
>>1503027https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-informant-who-made-up-biden-bribe-story-gets-6-years-prisonimagine telling a lie so egregious even fox news admits it's a lie. so are you from russia or do they just pay you
>>1503034https://oversight.house.gov/blog/key-excerpts-from-tony-bobulinskis-transcribed-interview/Nothing Tony Bobulinski said has been discredited.Tony Bobulinski is a former Navy officer, energy executive, and brief business partner of Hunter Biden. In 2017, he was brought in as the proposed CEO of a joint venture called SinoHawk Holdings, which aimed to partner with CEFC China Energy (a large Chinese energy conglomerate with ties to the Chinese Communist Party) to pursue infrastructure and energy investments in the U.S. and elsewhere. The deal involved Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's brother James BidenBobulinski cites a May 13, 2017, email from James Gilliar (one of the associates) outlining a proposed equity split for the CEFC deal. It allocated 20% each to Hunter Biden ("H"), Rob Walker ("RW"), James Gilliar ("JG"), and Bobulinski ("TB"); 20% to James Biden; and "10 held by H for the big guy."Bobulinski claims Hunter arranged a meeting with Joe Biden on the night of May 2, 2017, at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles (while Joe was there for the Milken Conference). He says they spoke for 45–60 minutes about the Biden family's business plans with the Chinese, and that Joe was "plainly familiar" with the details at a high level. Bobulinski has said this directly contradicts Joe's public statements that he never discussed Hunter's business dealingsIn late July 2017, Bobulinski alleges Hunter sent aggressive WhatsApp messages to a CEFC executive (Zang) demanding immediate payment of $10 million that CEFC had committed to the "Biden family." One message referenced Hunter's "Chairman" (interpreted by Bobulinski as Joe Biden) sitting right next to him, using Joe's presence as leverage. Shortly after, CEFC wired $5 million to an entity in which Hunter had a 50% stake. Bobulinski claims this was an interest-free "loan" to the family and that Hunter circumvented SinoHawk's structure to take the money directly.
>>1503038so you're russian. got it, shill anon, thanksfor anyone who still believes russian assets, here's tony bobulinski making a fool of himself in front of AOC, just yesterday actuallyhttps://www.c-span.org/video/?c5110983/what-crime-witnessed
>>1503040The high crime and misdemeanor he witnessed was corruption and bribery.Why do you think the Chinese were paying Joe Biden 10%?
>>1503042why do you think he has never actually pressed charges and instead has bloviated endlessly? why is his evidence from a man in jail for falsifying evidence? why don't you get a real job
>>1503044Tony Bobulinski is a former navy office, an energy executive and a business manUnder what capacity would he press charges? He's not a prosecutor. He's not a police officer. All Tony Bobulinski is his testimony, and the contemporaneous documents and sworn testimony that back his story
>>1502982Lazy Donald Trump gets away with it again!
>>1503001>Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society Suing both of these organizations into oblivion for the damage they've done to the country would be a good start to fixing things.
JOE BIDENS BROTHER "JAMES BIDEN"?WHY AM I ONLY HEARING ABOUT HIM NOW
>>1503100It's telling that the only diversion topic you people can come up with to divert from the story about Trump's corruption is a made up story about Biden.
>>1503096No doubt one of Trump's last acts will be an EO which says you can't sue thinktanks, and then he will pardon them anyway for good measure.
>>1502982>Opinion>Assistant Attorney GeneralFucking worthless. May as well ask my opinion. Put him under oath, put him before the judiciary committee, THEN his opinion matters. This is just dicksucking until then.Reminder anyone who doesn't clean the don knob was already fired and this is just another knob-washer.
>>1503499Opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel act as legal pretext for the Executive to take actions in case someone wants to legally penalize them later, at least until those actions get challenged in court, which in this case could be after any incriminating records are irrecoverably hidden or destroyed. They can say they were acting on the best advice of their lawyers and therefore weren't intentionally engaging in misconduct if they get hauled before Congress or a judge. And as a general rule the lawyer won't be held accountable for any illegal shit they okayed as long as they aren't caught blatantly saying "we should do crimes which I know are illegal".He didn't write a fucking opinion article. He created a fucking alibi. Do you not remember the fucking torture memo?
