Brit, which law supersedes the Presidential Records Act?
The Presidential Records Act does not justify Trump taking records that were not personal, regardless of the classification. The only way the PRA can help Trump is that it is a civil statute, which allows Trump to argue that criminal charges are not appropriate to resolve the dispute. It does not say that the departing president can designate anything as personal and there is no recourse. In the Clinton case, the court’s position was that NARA declined to try to recover the tapes from Clinton and there was nothing in the statute that allowed the court to force them to do so, so the case was dismissed.