Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the DC District Court dismissed a lawsuit over President Trump's lack of having written records of his conversations with Putin, saying judges in Washington don't have the authority to oversee the President's day-to-day actions
Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the DC District Court dismissed the lawsuit, saying judges in Washington don't have the authority to oversee the President's day-to-day actions."The law is clear that the Court cannot order the President to perform discretionary duties," the judge noted."A district judge must steer clear of efforts to supervise day-to-day operations within the White House ...
also had sued over the lack of notes about a Trump meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner's meeting with Saudi Arabian royalty.The case had been one of several attempts to draw courts' attentions to the President for allegedly not fulfilling his constitutional duties.
and the historians were challenging"this administration's recordkeeping practices -- its operational decisions concerning the creation and maintenance of records," Jackson noted in her opinion Monday."The gravamen of these claims is that there appears to be a deliberate, ongoing effort to avoid the recordkeeping contemplated by Congress -- at least with respect to a critical subset of foreign relations activities. ...
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