Who argued Trump didn't have plenary powers to declassify?

Finding a way to defend taking declassified documents

It's (D)ifferent. Biden and Co sat in these for ~8 years, BUT THEN THEY CAME FORWARD.

Tigerdocsucker, HankFag, Euroshitstain, and SloMoFro

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hes guilty.

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Trump is innnocent.

As such, your false equivalency is...




Your boy Biden is guilty, as are his lawyers.

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me. well actually guys on tv who described two layers of approvers for sci.
and there is a necessity for people to learn about it so mind stuff isnt convincing.
im ok with biden going to prison for dumbasssery.
im not giving trump an out.
hes guilty.
frick them both. idiots.

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Only one of these people was president and capable of declassifying documents.

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They'll be out tomorrow morning after their talking points have been received

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"Joe's a nice guy and is cooperative, not like Trump who's a meanie obstructionist." This is pretty much it.

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im not giving trump an out.
hes guilty.

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Of what?

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Let me remind you...Trump had plenary powers to declassify

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This is interesting:

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The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan — which addressed the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance — addresses this line of authority.

"The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to "classify and declassify at will."

In fact, Robert F. Turner, associate director of the University of Virginia's Center for National Security Law, said that "if Congress were to enact a statute seeking to limit the president’s authority to classify or declassify national security information, or to prohibit him from sharing certain kinds of information with Russia, it would raise serious separation of powers constitutional issues."

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This article is from 2017:

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The problem, though, isn't with Congress. It's with little pissants from the Administrative State (like Alexnader Vindman) who think they actually run the show and believe the president is subservient to them.

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Let me remind you...Trump had plenary powers to declassify

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What does that mean?

He has the power to determine what he declassifies?

He has the power to determine how he declassifies?

Both?

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Both?

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Yes.