by America First Legal at X/Twitter
/1BREAKING — New AFL whitepaper reveals that the President of the United States has absolute authority over his presidential papers, undermining an essential element of the Biden DOJ’s Mar-a-Lago prosecution.
We explain in the thread below…
/2 This whitepaper details why–as a matter of constitutional law, the Presidential Records Act (PRA), and historical practice–the President of the United States has absolute authority over presidential papers. Neither Congress nor the federal courts may lawfully abrogate or limit this authority.
/3 This constitutional fact has significant implications for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution against Donald J. Trump in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The Department of Justice has charged Donald Trump with violating 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), which provides:
/4 In obtaining the search warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago in 2022,…
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