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Executive orders have the force of law and they remain in force unless revoked by the president or one of his successors. This power has been interpreted by the courts to derive from Section 1 Article II of the U.S. Constitution: "The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United...

Yes. But as I explained, it is totally irrelevant. The law restricts the possession of any information that could prove harmful to the United States if it fell into the wrong hands. It doesn't matter if it's a copy of another document or not. I asked you if you understood why the law is explicit...

No, that's the man's well-earned reputation. It casts doubt on the significance of the product. Quality of sources matters. But I nevertheless analyzed the letter, I didn't ignore it. Right, he was an Assistant Director in that office and not likely privy to the decision-making of his bosses...

Yes, because it's totally irrelevant. No, Trump did not have the authority to retain documents once he left office, nor could he legally store sensitive information in his resort. Read the Presidential Records Act and the Espionage Act. I've linked to both in this thread. Repeating blatant...

It's obvious you have a strong emotional attachment to the primary defendant in the case, but that doesn't relieve you of the necessity to provide evidence supporting your positions if you want to be taken seriously. I've laid out the legal facts contained in the indictment and upon which the...

Let's just be clear about the source of the letter. Jim Jordan is Trump's chief apologist in the Senate and a man who has a well-established reputation for lying and grandstanding on the former president's behalf. Anything that comes from him ought to be regarded with deep suspicion. In any...

Your posts in this thread have made it crystal clear you don't understand the role of the mens rea in American jurisprudence, the charges contained in the indictment, nor the terms of the Presidential Records Act. Pointing out your mistakes does not mean I am trying to think for you...

It would really help you make sense of the world if you took the time to inform yourself of the facts. Laws governing speeding do not require the establishment of intent. To be convicted of a crime under the Espionage Act, however, requires evidence that the accused "knowingly" and "willfully"...

Your claim that Trump was simply never asked for his cooperation is so uninformed, it's hard to know where to begin. NARA requested the missing documents from Trump's presidency all the way back in May of 2021. That's nearly two years ago. If Trump had simply returned all materials as required...

Biden and Pence voluntarily had their own attorneys conduct searches which resulted in the discovery of sensitive documents in the first place. Both have cooperated fully with the FBI and Department of Justice in their investigations. These actions undermine any claim that either of these men...

What utter nonsense. A few select quotes follow below, courtesy of The Washington Post and The Intelligencer. Tucker Carlson: "Oh, it was an ‘insurrection.’ So how many of the participants in that insurrection had been charged with insurrecting? With sedition? With treason? Zero." (May, 2021)...

I'm having a hard time understanding you here. Are you suggesting that a school poster urging children to "Achieve, Contribute, Thrive" is the moral equivalent of the notorious sign "Arbeit macht frei" which greeted the victims of the Nazis at Auschwitz? If so, how did you reach that conclusion...

No one doubts that the Declaration of Independence is an important document. But Thomas Jefferson's reference to the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" can hardly be read as legal justification for the posting of some particular Christian sect's version of the Ten Commandments in public...

There is no press freedom in Russia, so the Russian people only hear what Putin wants them to hear. There are also criminal penalties for espousing views out of step with the government-mandated line. For Pete's sake, Russian news outlets and talk shows regularly portray Ukraine as a country...

East Germany was indeed an involuntary subject of the Soviet Union, but characterizing today's Germany as a mere satellite of the United States is a common theme of Russian propaganda and demonstrates a profound misapprehension of modern geopolitics. NATO is a military alliance of partners, each...

Judge Breyer observed the following. Twitter has important First Amendment rights that would be jeopardized by a Court order telling Twitter what content-moderation policies to adopt and how to enforce those policies. The Court will issue no such order. So the First Amendment did apply in this...

I've been away from this forum for some time, but I thought it important to follow up with the legal result of this case (O'Handley vs Padilla et al). District Judge Charles R. Breyer issued his decision in January of 2022. The Court dismissed all of the federal claims with prejudice. If you...

A survey of conspiracy beliefs undertaken by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire found that among polled Americans 28% either agree or are unsure about the claim that "Vaccinations for COVID-19 implant microchips to track people," 19% either agree or are unsure...

Once again I will advise you that needlessly breaking up my post into small sections (sometimes even below the level of the sentence) merely to interject some petty, throw-away comment that adds nothing to your argument severely diminishes the ability of any reader to follow along. To read your...

You clearly do not understand the details of the case. The OEC alerted Twitter to a post that contained election lies and misinformation. Read the lawsuit for yourself. Twitter is not obligated to permit the spreading of objectively mendacious conspiracies on its platform, particularly when it...