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A new lawsuit accused Trump’s legal team of trying to declare the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional, setting up another fight over whether the White House can treat public records like personal property. The case lands in the middle of a wider effort to track what Trump kept, what he hid, and whether his administration is trying to rewrite the rules after the fact.
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A new lawsuit accused Trump’s legal team of trying to declare the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional, setting up another fight over whether the White House can treat public records like personal property. The case lands in the middle of a wider effort to track what Trump kept, what he hid, and whether his administration is trying to rewrite the rules after the fact.
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