Trump Indictment Fails SCOTUS Standard
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan Sunday argued that the 37-count indictment former President Donald Trump is facing doesn’t change the standard that the Supreme Court set when it comes to a president’s authority to declassify documents.
“The standard is Navy vs. Egan, a 1988 case, a unanimous decision from the court,” the Ohio Republican said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Justice [Harry] Blackmun wrote the opinion and it said the president’s ability to classify and control access to national security information flows from the Constitution. He decides. He alone decides.”
Trump, who is facing charges in connection with classified documents stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate, “can put it wherever he wants and handle it however he wants. That’s the law. That’s the standard,” Jordan said.
“[Special Counsel] Jack Smith can do all these 37 different counts or whatever he wants to do but that doesn’t change the standard that the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, said, was that he can classify and he can control access,” he added. “He has the sole authority.”
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“The president of the United States can classify and he can control access to national security information however he wants,” said Jordan. “You can’t obstruct when there was not an underlying crime.”
He also pointed out that the Presidential Records Act was not included in the indictment.
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They will keep throwing things against the wall, hoping something will stick – because they are afraid of what they call a “Retribution Presidency”, but what I call “Justice”. There was a coup in play, and they don’t want to hang.