(08-18-2022, 09:16 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-18-2022, 08:59 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: As a reminder, there's already precedent that the President and only the President is the sole authority to determine what are his personal records and no court, government agency or even the Congress can say otherwise. This whole event is so far over the line that the heads of the DOJ and FBI along with many of their subordinates should be arrested and tried.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/...uld-impact


"Under the statutory scheme established by the PRA, the decision to segregate personal materials from Presidential records is made by the President, during the President's term and in his sole discretion," Jackson wrote in her March 2012 decision, which was never appealed.

"Since the President is completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of  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," she added.

The President does not get to redefine terms that are defined in a statute.

Quote:(3) The term "personal records" means all documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not 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 includes—
(A) diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business;
(B) materials relating to private political associations, and having no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; and
( C ) materials relating exclusively to the President's own election to the office of the Presidency; and materials directly relating to the election of a particular individual or individuals to Federal, State, or local office, which have no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.