Trump Vows To Replace National Records Archivist
The Hill reports:
President-elect Trump said on Monday that he’ll replace the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) leader. “We will [have a] new archivist,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on his show. According to federal law on the NARA website, Trump has the power to fire the archivist but must “communicate the reasons for any such removal to each House of the Congress.”
One of the prominent legal cases the president-elect has had to deal with centered around his retention of sensitive documents from his first presidency, in the face of work by NARA and the FBI to get them back. “We also had a very brilliant and very fair judge on the case,” Trump told Hewitt, referring to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who ruled to
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