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Old case over audio tapes in Bill Clinton's
sock drawer could impact Mar-a-Lago search dispute

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Posted By: Judy W., 8/18/2022 10:39:41 AM

When it comes to the National Archives, history has a funny way of repeating itself. And legal experts say a decade-old case over audio tapes that Bill Clinton once kept in his sock drawer may have significant impact over the FBI search of Melania Trump's closet and Donald Trump's personal office. The case in question is titled Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration and it involved an effort by the conservative watchdog to compel the Archives to forcibly seize hours of audio recordings that Clinton made during his presidency with historian Taylor Branch.

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The judge ruled the records could not be seized because the Presidential Records Act made no provision for that. Given this case, I think every accusation against Donald Trump regarding his records falls apart.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dr. Constant 8/18/2022 10:56:39 AM (No. 1252108)
Interesting that the libtard judge that save Bill Clintdog may have aided Trump
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Reply 2 - Posted by: EQKimball 8/18/2022 11:22:30 AM (No. 1252135)
Judge Berman Jackson was correct. The Presidential Records Act cannot trump (so to speak) the U.S. Constitution. By removing the tapes from the White House, Clinton implicitly determined them to be personal property. The question of when and how documents become declassified is essentially the same. What the former president is arguing is what I would call "de facto" declassification. Because he has plenary authority to declassify, Congress lacks jurisdiction to prescribe a magic incantation or protocol for this act. By removing them from the White House when he was still president he implicitly declassified them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Yo Yo 8/18/2022 11:25:36 AM (No. 1252138)
Shouldn't the Justice Department geniuses have known of this legal precedent before the raid?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: volksford 8/18/2022 11:31:41 AM (No. 1252146)
Oh yeah......we forgot about that one , there are so many Clinton escapades its hard to keep up.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MDConservative 8/18/2022 12:31:43 PM (No. 1252218)
We'll see. There's always an appeals panel that will "fix" things.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: downnout 8/18/2022 1:41:36 PM (No. 1252326)
Well now, this could certainly throw the cat among the pigeons, couldn’t it?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: lakerman1 8/18/2022 1:47:44 PM (No. 1252334)
I continue to believe that the Deep State, assisted by the DOJ and FBI, just wanted to dirty up DJT until 2024, keeping him out of the 2024 presidential election. The matter will be in federal court until 2024, and the dimocrats can point out that DJT could lose and go to prison, even though he won't and can't.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mifla 8/19/2022 7:45:55 AM (No. 1253002)
John, you forgot one thing. There are rules for Democrats and then there are rules for Republicans.
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