All authority over how/when/where any document is classified exists solely with executive branch of government.
Period.
The president, being the elected head of the executive branch has absolute authority regarding those same documents to do with whatever he sees fit.
It is an absolute authority.
The deep state is trying to claim they have the authority, over the elected head of their own branch of government, to determine the disposition and use of those same documents.
If this succeeds, the dep state will LEAGALY have all authority over all aspects of our government, and the president will only have the authority they say he can have.
This is the single biggest legal case in the history of our country.
Not many people seem to get that.
It’s not JUST about Trump. This is the Deep State/Security agencies attempt to claim all power over our government.
All correct, while the President is in office.
The deep state is trying to claim they have the authority, over the elected head of their own branch of government, to determine the disposition and use of those same documents.
They do, once he is no longer in office. A former President is only allowed absolute autonomy over "personal documents" and that definition is narrow, and clearly spelled out in the Presidential Records Act. Read it, you may be surprised it doesn't say what you've been told it does.
But if you believe Trump has full authority over all these documents, why do you think he kept turning them in, when the Archives were first asking for them back?