DOJ tells Trump he doesn't have to follow law requiring him to turn over all presidential records [View all]

Source: Independent

President Donald Trump does not have to turn over all his presidential records to the government after leaving office, the Department of Justice has concluded, after finding a landmark transparency law to be unconstitutional.

"Congress does not have the power to compel an entire branch of government to create and save every single possible piece of paper," a White House official told Axios.

The stance could set up a major documents fight when Trump leaves office, a flashback to the Mar-a-Lago files case that followed his first term.

In an opinion posted on Wednesday, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, which advises the White House, wrote that the Presidential Records Act of 1978 “exceeds Congress’s enumerated and implied powers, and it aggrandizes the Legislative Branch at the expense of the constitutional independence and autonomy” of the president.

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