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Trump faces new court battle after GOP judge quotes Orwell in rebuke
What happened
AlterNet reports that the Trump administration asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to undermine the Presidential Records Act, the post-Watergate law establishing that official White House records belong to the government, not personally to the president. The administration’s lawyers were scheduled to argue on October 16 that the law unconstitutionally intrudes on executive authority.
U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, rejected that position in May, found the law likely constitutional, and ordered White House officials to follow it while…
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