Posted on 10/06/2019 10:57:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
In an unusual move, Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Thursday ordered the White House to preserve records of President Trump’s dealings with foreign leaders.
Jackson, an Obama appointee, issued the order on Thursday and demanded the White House not destroy records of “meetings, phone calls, and other communications with foreign leaders.”
Jackson’s order is in response to a lawsuit brought by radical left-wing watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The order by Jackson appears to cover President Trump directly, although it doesn’t mention Trump by name, it covers all “defendants,” and President Trump is one of the two defendants named in the lawsuit — this is a highly controversial and unusual move by a federal judge.
The suit, which was filed in May before the Trump-Ukraine ‘scandal’ created by Schiff and a Deep State CIA officer, accused the Trump White House of failing to uphold the Presidential Records Act.
The corrupt judge also addresses President Trump’s electronic system designed to keep his calls secure and out of the hands of Deep State leakers.
Jackson ordered “all records of efforts by White House or other executive branch officials to return, ‘claw back,’ ’lock down’ or recall White House records” about Trump’s dealings with foreign leaders.
In light of the whistleblower, lawyers representing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on Tuesday asked judge Jackson for a temporary restraining order, using reports from the Trump-Ukraine ‘whistleblower’ as evidence Trump is trying to hide his phone calls with foreign leaders from a records-keeping database.
The Justice Department responded on Wednesday in a court filing that the White House was already preserving many of the records mentioned in the plaintiff’s lawsuit.
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Anyhow, I do not believe she has no such legal authority under the Constitution, and it is called separate but equal branches of government.
It proves they have nothing
And you know what, they are not privileged to any of that information anyways.
Aren’t all records with foreign leaders preserved anyway..and I would like to see ALL the phone calls between Obama and Iran, ya know when Obama sent BILLIONS of our money to Iran in the middle of the night
Berman Jackson is completely corrupt.
Holder is the target.
He is the one running this entire Witch Hunt.
big middle finger to this unimportant judge, and the records are already being kept by the way!
Just for fun, President Trump should send a tweet asking Hillary if she has any BleachBit left over he can borrow.
Saw the name of the judge. One of the Deep State’s go-to people.
This
At this point the DEMOCRATS are trying to criminalize every action the President makes.
She has no legal authroty in directly ordering the White House to do anything; Separation of Powers.
Federal judges have power over states and federal agencies in certain circumstances.
Regarding the latter, the WH has authority to appeal any federal court ruling that imposes an order on its executive branch federal agencies.
The plan is obvious.
They know that there is no way of enforcing this order because of the separate but equal concept.
But they do know that they can cause the leaders of governments to fear talking to President Trump and that is their intention.
They intend to cripple his ability to fulfill his duties as president.
Preserving diplomatic records is standard operating procedure in most American administrations.
Not so much under Obama with deleted emails, smashed phones, hacked computers and missing laptops.
IIRC Trump has the authority to release those if they've not been erased.
Not real. 'Gang of Eight' is colloquial, not official.
The term isn’t official, but the the members are specified in law:
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R40698.pdf
When a low level judge issue a nationwide ruling, especially going against a Trump executive order, Pres. Trump ought to reply that they will continue enforce the order until SCOTUS rules one way or the other on it.
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