Posted on 02/04/2020 8:08:22 PM PST by BigDaddyTX
Doesn't Pelosi have to rerain originals of all government documents and communications?
Attorney General.
Send that to McCarthy and all R leadership.
If you think this bad? Wait till they try to take her gavel away.
Well, go for it.
(But he may have more important things on his plate than reigning in a senile old woman who is already doing her OWN self in.)
It was more than just “a copy”. The Constitution requires the President to provide a summary of “the state of the Union, from time to time”. It looked to me like what Nan got was the official parchment version required by the Constitution. I don’t think it should be replaced. It should remain as a monument to the petty, vindictive failure that the Speaker really is.
It was an admission of how powerful the SOTU was - her last hopes of defeating President Trump went down the drain and she snapped...time to retire before she petitions for the return of Alaska from Russia.
It's not an original. It's a copy.
Looked like plain white paper to me. Perhaps larger than 81/2 X 11 but not parchment. I think they stopped using parchment about 200 years ago.
“I think they stopped using parchment about 200 years ago.”
They? You mean “they” stopped using this: https://www.amazon.com/Astroparche-Ancient-Gold-Paper-Recycled/dp/B076X6KQ5L/
Yes. They also stopped using quill pens too.
Having been a Dept of the Army FOIA officer for 20 years, she did not violate any Federal records law. The OFFICIAL copy of the President’s State of the Union address is a presidential document and MUST be retained and archived as such. President Trump merely gave Ms. Pelousy a courtesy copy for her to have.
Ms. Pelousy’s despicable and childish action of tearing it up, live on an inter-nationally televised broadcast, is to her everlasting discredit and shame, but NOT an illegal action.
That is what I suspected. Thanks for the clarification.
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