DOJ will die Watergate-Ära-Regel abschaffen, die die Aufzeichnungen des Präsidenten öffentlich macht | Die Abschaffung des Presidential Records Act würde es Privatpersonen ermöglichen, für immer die Schlüssel zur amerikanischen Geschichte zu besitzen

Concerning details:

>President Donald Trump recently threatened genocide as political leverage on social media, which begs the question whether there are even more extreme conversations happening in private in the Oval Office, or if anyone in Trump’s orbit is cautioning him against this immoral threat of mass violence.
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>Access to these discussions is critical not only for accountability, but also for future administrations who want to re-engage in rational diplomacy. That’s why the Department of Justice’s recent opinion that grants Trump, and every president who follows him, a license to steal American history is so dangerous.
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>In a sweeping new memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel, the DOJ claims the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. The department’s edict, which is already facing legal challenges, argues that a president’s records are private, rather than public, property. This is an extreme reinterpretation of executive power that seeks to undo nearly 50 years of transparency.
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>The PRA was signed into law after the abuses of the Watergate era and established that the records of every president since Ronald Reagan are public property and must be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, at the end of a president’s term.
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>This law is the reason the public has insight into the inner workings of everything from President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and the George W. Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina to records on the nomination of Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh, and other Supreme Court nominees.
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>That’s because the PRA states that, starting five years after the end of a presidential administration, those records become subject to public release under the Freedom of Information Act.
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>This history-killer memo attempts to undo this route for public access to presidential records and build a brick wall where there once was a window into the highest office in the land.
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>It’s no surprise that a president who spent his first term repeatedly violating the PRA now wants to eviscerate it. But the danger to our democracy cannot be overstated: The president’s decisions are the most consequential in government, and the PRA is the only reason we have a front-row seat to them, even belatedly.
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>We cannot let the presidency be transformed into a black box. Democrats and Republicans must work together, in Congress and in the courts, to ensure that no president has free rein to hide their own corruption or claim that American history belongs to them alone. Because if we lose the right to know what the president has done in our name, we lose the ability to call ourselves a democracy.

This is a much needed warning as well a call to action for anyone who believes in any of the ideals of American Democracy and its promise. Allowing any public servant let alone the president the ability to hide their actions and decisions from public scrutiny in perpetuity is a time-tested recipe for corruption, and this kind of edict from the DOJ should not be allowed to stand unchallenged.

I feel like I am beating a dead horse with this comment but here goes:

Fuck Aileen Cannon. Pray for a leak of the Jack Smith report V2.

This is extremely disturbing and sinister.

Ah yes – more power in the hands of the „job creators“.

America, when you’re ready to quit blaming each other for why all your shit is being stolen/drained, and face the bastards actually taking it..

..lemmie know.

Most transparent administration in history. My ass

SO TRANSPARENT. I seriously can’t help but laugh at this point despite how destructive they are being with everything.

RIP American Democracy. 1788 – 2024

It isn’t a rule, it’s the law.

Fucking psychos

most transparent president in history /s

Republicans want to rule the US, and not have a representative form of government. Every action they take or propose stems from that premise. Trump is the natural evolution of this scheme: an unfettered tyrant. So his DOJ follows suit to hide records that might reveal plans, whether discussed or enacted, to further the change from representation to rule.

No. The DOJ wrote an INSANE opinion that totally rejects a valid law. The argument they use makes no sense for several reasons. (1) It dismisses the law as a unilateral imposition by Congress. This, of course, ignores the fact that the law was promulgated via signature from the President after Congress voted to enact the bill. (2) DOJ contends that Congress generally can’t impose limits on the executive branch. This is completely at odds with the Constitution, which very definitely allows Congress to establish rules by which the government must operate. (3) DOJ says Congress may help by adding authorities, but no limits or restrictions, to the Executive Branch. Bullshit! Nothing about the DOJ’s opinion is well reasoned or based in reality.

Department of Justice once again engages in covering up activity from the American people. Seems that Republicans can’t help constantly pointing out that their version of justice is what normal people call corruption.

So Trump can threaten genocide on social media but we might never know what even more extreme conversations happened in private? The Presidential Records Act exists precisely because of Watergate era abuses and now they want to gut it completely.

This is absolutely terrifying. Trump is literally trying to make presidential records his private property so he can hide evidence of his crimes and potentially sell state secrets to the highest bidder. The timing with his fake „presidential library“ announcement makes it clear this is all about personal enrichment.