The fourth estate is absolutely failing America. The headline ought to be "DOJ wants to break Watergate law", but instead, we get... this. Is Bari Weiss now running the Intercept too? WTAF is going on across the board?

It does not appear that this administration particularly cares about whether or not they're allowed to ignore laws.

Right but who is going to prosecute? the Department of Justice?

Want to bet?

Sure you can, when you're the President. He's got presumptive immunity for all official acts. If election interference is an official act (as they decided in Trump v US), then surely ordering the destruction of all of his records is also an official act.

The rules only apply to Democrats now, did you miss the memo? (Maybe you didn't see the memo as it was sealed).

Enforced by the following the rules police. Oh wait..

Why not? Are we gonna send the marshals to arrest the president?

Jokes aside, this presidency showed that it was not our written laws that enabled the expected operation of gov branches within their expected limits.

It was these unwritten laws we were taking for granted, because casually we assume that the gov will not be malicious.

It seems to me that we need to stop letting lawyers write laws, and instead start writing verified programs.

> It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.

They’re not ignoring. They’re saying they think the law itself is unconstitutional.

From the article:

>> In a sweeping new memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel, the DOJ claims the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. The department’s edict, which is already facing legal challenges, argues that a president’s records are private, rather than public, property.