A filing claimed that the Justice Department was criminalizing the former president’s possession of “his own presidential records,” a stance at odds with the Presidential Records Act.
Tag: National Archives and Records Administration
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Trump Document Inquiry Poses Unparalleled Test for Justice Dept.
What had started as an effort to retrieve national security documents has now been transformed into one of the most challenging and complicated criminal investigations in recent memory.
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Takeaways From the Affidavit Used to Justify the Trump Search
The affidavit showed that prosecutors tried to retrieve the documents for more than a year and are now worried about obstruction of justice.
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Email Shows Early Tension Between Trump and National Archives
The archives reached out to lawyers for the former president less than four months after he left office last year seeking help in recovering missing material.