Is Fox News host Steve Doocy the latest spokesperson for the Justice Department? There are times when I wonder, given his intractable defense of the illegal raid of Mar-a-Lago on August 8. Doocy has pushed back aggressively on Republican guests who have accused the Department of Justice of running amok and engaging in gross prosecutorial overreach with this raid on the home of a former president.
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Someone tell Doocy that Congress virtually accepts that former presidents will leave with classified materials. It’s why they have a federally funded staff with security clearances and Secret Service protection once they leave office. The president has near-absolute authority to declassify anything, which Trump did, and took copies of the records with him. To argue that Mar-a-Lago wasn’t secure under the auspices of the Secret Service is abjectly absurd. Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch, has torched every supposed legal reasoning offered by the Justice Department. He concludes that Attorney General Merrick Garland and his minions just have a fundamental and horrid misunderstanding of the law regarding the classification powers of the presidency.
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