Judge’s Ruling In 2012 Bill Clinton Case Supports Trump In Mar-A-Lago Raid Dispute

The Real News Feed homepage has 60 new headlines every 24 hours - click here to see it.

A ruling in a 2012 case involving Bill Clinton is great news for Trump in the Mar-A-Lago raid dispute.

The case involved Bill Clinton having put audio tapes from his presidency in his sock drawer. Judicial Watch attempted to get the documents by trying to compel the National Archives to seize the records.

The decison said that the President has far-reaching powers when handling information that is classifed. This includes his ability to declasiffy information.

Just The News reported:

When it comes to the National Archives, history has a funny way of repeating itself. And legal experts say a decade-old case over audio tapes that Bill Clinton once kept in his sock drawer may have significant impact over the FBI search of Melania Trump’s closet and Donald Trump’s personal office.

The case in question is titled Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration and it involved an effort by the conservative watchdog to compel the Archives to forcibly seize hours of audio recordings that Clinton made during his presidency with historian Taylor Branch.

But Jackson’s ruling — along with the Justice Department’s arguments that preceded it — made some other sweeping declarations that have more direct relevance to the FBI’s decision to seize handwritten notes and files Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago. The most relevant is that a president’s discretion on what are personal vs. official records is far-reaching and solely his, as is his ability to declassify or destroy records at will.