“The [Presidential Records Act] does not confer any mandatory or even discretional authority on the archivist,” wrote U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in that 2012 ruling.
“These are not presidential records,” he added.
The Presidential Records Act, Trump’s brief said, gave Trump the sole authority to decide how to categorize his records.
Fitton told me he explained his Presidential Records Act theory to the Washington, D.C., grand jury in the Trump document case last winter.
Fitton, for instance, accused the Justice Department of flipping its position on presidential discretion under the Presidential Record Act to go after Trump.
Persons:
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