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DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public

234 points by tlhunter

by coldcode

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It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.

by Incipient

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It's just 4 years...but I'm genuinely thinking you lot aren't going to survive it. Seeing what is happening from both sides, as well as 'independents' (the NY chap). I feel your society is just cooked. I am genuinely starting to believe it's irreparable to the extent it has progressed.

by tlhunter

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https://archive.is/jHfOe

by josefritzishere

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That sounds like someone wants to hide the evidence.

by ceejayoz

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Fine. I wanna scrap the pardon power. Trade?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pard...

by LightBug1

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Step'ity step towards a fascist state for the klep'ity klep ...

by jauntywundrkind

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These are dark days, perhaps the darkest for America. Perhaps the only time that somehow we didn't squeak out a win, the only time the insurrectionist rabble propogandized their cause for destruction of America, found the leverage points of lawfare, mediafare, an impotent Congress, and political lapdog Supreme Court with Federalist Society biases against any checks and balances at all, that all these factors aligned to allow complete vandalizing from within. A piracy & rampaging, a campaign of spite from conquerors wishing to salt the earth of that they have claimed.
It so unsurprising that these dark days would have an administration that argued it owes nothing to the American people, nothing to history. That they would want to hide their filthy destruction.
Back in 2018, Trump used to go around violating the law with his bare hands, ripping up documents that displeased him. Pitiful staffers were assigned to go tape the documents back together, in some sign of respect to the law & history. https://boingboing.net/2018/06/11/presidential-records-act.h...
I strongly dislike the "everyone is 12" or everyone is 15 tale being told now, that there are no adults. There are adults. They are all just wicked evil people working against America, are the pardoned insurrectionists and much much worse, with far more focused reign to do what Reagan and the Powell memorandum and Project 2025 (which is but a recent update to a long running document begat from the Powell Memorandum) set out to do: to unmake America, to bypass all checks, to dynamite the nation from the inside out. Heck yes they want to make sure no one sees them TNT'ing the Union.