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"DOJ has one big problem with its Trump criminal case, legal expert says"
28 Jun 2023 10:06 pm
https://apnews.com/article/trump-indict ... 52638daebfgolfboy » 28 Jun 2023, 8:33 pm » wrote: ↑ Judge Jackson says you're wrong.
“Since the President is completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time in office, it would be difficult for this Court to conclude that Congress intended that he would have less authority to do what he pleases with what he considers to be his personal records”
This was also the position of the Obama Justice Department.
It only changed now, for Trump.
Legal experts this week also dismissed those arguments. Margulies, of Roger Williams University, said the claim “mixes apples and oranges.”“The Clinton materials were audiotapes of conversations with an historian that incidentally recorded some calls on official business,” he wrote. “In contrast, the documents that Trump kept were all presidential records from the moment they arrived at the Oval Office from other parts of the government.”
Eric Freedman, a professor at Hofstra University’sE School of Law in Hempstead, New York, also noted that a federal appeals court has already rejected similar arguments raised by Trump’s legal team as it sought to block the criminal investigation into the records found at Mar-a-Lago.