The world’s largest association of historians is suing the Trump administration over a recent effort to justify the president keeping his official records rather than turning them over to the National Archives.

Last week, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an advisory opinion that stated Trump “need not further comply” with the decades-old law governing the handover of presidential records for public preservation after a president leaves office.

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    Please let it be the historians that bring about his downfall!

    If not them, then the librarians.

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      I was really hoping it would be Taylor Swift, but her fans let us down.

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          I just thought it would be hilarious if she was responsible for taking trump down because he pissed off her fans.

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    Imagine the amount of incriminating evidence that will exist in that amount of records.

    Now imagine what ISN’T in that record due to using Signal, shredding documents, or flat out not recording anything the way they are supposed to.

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    It wasn’t until this current administration that I discovered the DoJ weren’t actually part of the judiciary, and were actually just the President’s personal attack dogs

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      More modern democracies like Taiwan have 5 branches of government because thing like the DoJ is just too powerful to be part of another branch.

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      Our departmental naming scheme was lifted from 1984.

      At least the department of war is accurately named now.

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      i mean it makes sense for how our courts currently work: a combined judiciary and prosecutorial branch would break the adversarial system