IF one president can seal and unseal various things, a future president can unseal and look at what the former president did.
There are no restrictions on the president that way.
The president does not need a search warrant to view what a prior president has done.
His records having to do with his actions while in government will, if they are already not, become available.
Personal records cannot be made available without the consent of the person or a very specific court order.
There is a Public Records Act (or similar in name) that governs federal records esp. of officials and their work records. Usually they are turned over to the National Archives for processing or to a library.
I don’t know what the exact rules are about who can open them, rescind an Executive Order, or have them rescheduled because several bodies are involved in the process.
However, Comrade John Conyers (D-Mich) once tried to have all the records of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, House Internal Security Committee destroyed, and when he failed at that, he imposed an arbitrary and illegal 75 years seal on it. (They contained too much information on his Communist Party USA affiliations and possible covert membership, as well as that of other Democrat officials).
Those records were opened by the threat of a lawsuit by a maverick historian (he beat me to it by about 6 months), and the records were reduced back to the legal 25 year hold (mainly to protect living individuals from retribution, exposure as FBI operatives, etc).
Those records are now open to the public though some seem to be missing (interestingly enough those are the ones I want to see).
I’m also interested in what Sandy Burglar Berger destroyed when he stole classified foreign policy records from the National Archives without any real punishment (He could have gone to jail for 10 years but the FIX was in, just like AG Janet Reno did to the organized crime investigation of LIUNA which would have linked the Clintons to mob money).
I suspect that the shredding machines at the White House have burned out many motors over the past 3 months. I can hear the sound from my office.
Weren’t or aren’t there still some records sealed from the Kennedy assassination?
Not sure about that. Certainly he could NOT disclose what he knew without obtaining it legally.