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To: gswilder
It seems pretty clear according the constitution, the laws, supreme court rulings, precedent, etc, that the president is the ultimate decider of what is classified and declassified. The courts have ruled, there is no formal process. He can have the codes to the nuclear football, say they are declassified, and hand them over to the Russians. Impeachable yes, illegal clearly no.

I think Trump is on the losing end of this battle in part because of the way he's playing his hand. The classified documents (even if they were declassified) still bear classification markings, and the rule of thumb is assume the markings are correct. Trump didn't make things easier on himself by refusing to testify or enter into evidence a memo or sworn statement of declassification while he was POTUS.

Maybe this is a cagey move, maybe it's dumb, but to me it's like getting caught by a mall cop with a jacket that still has the security tag on it and refusing to show the receipt that you purchased it. To the mall cop, you shoplifted. To the constitutional lawyer, it is the mall cop's obligation to prove you shoplifted, and the whole time there's a receipt in your pocket that you are stubbornly refusing to show because innocent until proven guilty.

14 posted on 09/21/2022 10:29:12 PM PDT by jz638
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To: jz638

Your stupidity is epic!!!

Stop trying to deploy your limited intellect...on these very simple political rulings.

You can’t understand why political hacks make politically motivated rulings....

That’s ok, but just stop embarrassing yourself by trying to convince others that maybe there is some validity to the hack judges thinking...

You just show that your stupidity...


16 posted on 09/21/2022 10:41:24 PM PDT by pacificus
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