One of the primary defenses in support of traitor trump’s handling of classified documents is that he has the power to declassify anything thing he wants. As The New York Times reports, “Former President Donald J. Trump claimed on Friday that before leaving office, he declassified all the documents the F.B.I. found in this week’s search of his Florida residence that agents described as classified in a list of what they seized — including several caches apparently marked as ‘top secret.’ ‘It was all declassified,’ Mr. Trump asserted in a statement. The claim echoed an assertion in May by Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official and a major supporter of Mr. Trump, after the National Archives found materials marked classified in boxes of documents it removed from Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and estate. He asserted that Mr. Trump had deemed those files declassified shortly before leaving office, but that the markings had not been removed from them. … But in any case, such a claim would not settle the matter. For one thing, two of the laws that a search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago this week referred to — Sections 1519 and 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code — make the taking or concealment of government records a crime regardless of whether they had anything to do with national security.”
Let’s put aside this last part of the quote, although it is the most significant factor in this Mar-a-Lago-gate mess. I will save that for another time. What I am most interested in is this presumption of the presidential declassification wand: That the president can declassify anything while in office. It interests me because it has never been tested, of course, until traitor trump entered the White House and decided to wreck everything. Before traitor trump, there was a process for handling and declassifying national security material that every other president would never dream of violating. Then enter traitor trump, who declassified on a whim and violated every administrative process. By his very contempt and disregard for norms, practices, principles, and morality, he has pushed the notion of the unitary executive — a philosophy particularly advanced by the dick, Cheney — to its maximum, which basically states that all the executive power resides in the chief executive, aka the president. Because he is the “C.E.O.” of the nation, then he is defacto above the law while in office. How convenient for the criminal president traitor trump and Bush II, who preceded him.
Naturally, when this type of fracture arises, one must go directly to SCOTUS. How will SCOTUS rule? That is the real question. Therein lies the fundamental crux of the matter. Will this SCOTUS confer even more unitary power upon the president? Will this SCOTUS create a declassification wand whereby the president can ignore the long-established declassification processes and just declare national security secrets open source because he said so? The short answer, of course, is hell yes! Or, more specifically, yes for RepubliKKKlan presidents, for they’ll find some exception in the “traditions and history” of America that only applies to “conservative” applications of an imperial president. Make no mistake, always ask yourself how will SCOTUS rule if such a matter needs to be adjudicated before the High Court. When you suspect they will vote in favor of conservative causes or a RepubliKKKlan president, then you will better understand the significance of what’s happening in politics. Conservatives are always looking for test cases to expedite to SCOTUS with the intention of expanding the powers of an imperial presidency. RepubliKKKlans want a Constitutional crisis because they know America’s democracy loses and Fascism wins in such cases. Welcome to stupid America!