Ray From Cleveland
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The burden of proof before the Special Master (Judge Raymond Dearie) is on the Complainant (The Traitor). It is up to the Traitor and his latest batch shysters to prove that the Traitor did declassify the documents that were illegally removed from The White House. The Traitor claims he had the power unto himself to declassify, he must prove he had such power.
Trump claims ‘standing order’ declassified records as soon as they left Oval Office - Washington Examiner
Former President Donald Trump claims a "standing order" allowed him to declassify documents as soon as they left the Oval Office.A statement from Trump's office was read by journalist John Solomon on Fox News on Friday evening as the former president faces fallout from an FBI raid of his...
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The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy v. Egan — which involved the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance — addresses this line of authority.
"The president, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the president, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."
Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, told PolitiFact in 2017 that such authority gives the president the authority to "classify and declassify at will."
Robert F. Turner, associate director of the University of Virginia's Center for National Security Law, told us in 2017 that "if Congress were to enact a statute seeking to limit the president’s authority to classify or declassify national security information, or to prohibit him from sharing certain kinds of information … it would raise serious separation of powers constitutional issues."
The official documents governing classification and declassification stem from presidential executive orders. But even these executive orders aren’t necessarily binding on a president. The president is not "obliged to follow any procedures other than those that he himself has prescribed," Aftergood said. "And he can change those."
What to know about presidential declassification powers
The search warrant served on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home appears to involve documents that investiga
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