Do Americans own the president's papers? Appeals court to weigh in
The administration says papers created in the White House belong to Donald Trump, not to the American people. The case could ultimately end up at the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.
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AIThe headline poses a neutral question and the excerpt attributes the ownership claim to 'the administration' rather than stating it as fact. The note that the case could reach the 'conservative-leaning Supreme Court' adds context but is mild.
- Attributes the claim: 'The administration says papers... belong to Donald Trump'.
- Headline framed as a question, 'Do Americans own the president's papers?', which invites a view.
- 'Conservative-leaning Supreme Court' is a descriptive label that hints at an expected outcome.
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The Presidential Records Act settled this in 1978 for a reason, and it settled it after Watergate taught everyone what happens when you let the occupant of the office treat the files as private property. That is not a partisan reading, it is the actual statute. If the administration wants to argue a president has a personal property interest in records created on the public dime in the public building, that argument has been made and rejected before, and the appeal is really about whether this Supreme Court wants to reopen it. The comment above calling this a bureaucrat grab has the history backwards. Ask Nixon how that theory worked out.
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NPR is such a joke. Of course the President's papers belong to HIM, not to some bureaucrats or the swamp creatures who leaked everything anyway. They want to attack President Trump at every turn, even on something this ridiculous. Leave our President alone!