Loading ...They should check before providing more lip service to the people even if they mean well. To think about it I don’t think Trump would leave her in charge of filing ANY original records.
Under House rules, members of Congress are encouraged to preserve records or donate them to a research institution for historical study, Cox said. Unlike congressional committees, members are not legally required to hold onto their office’s files.
“They can keep them private, they can destroy them, or they can rip them up,” he said.
This is in contrast to presidential records, which have been considered government property since the Presidential Records Act of 1978 and are supposed to be stored with the National Archives for safekeeping.
“The State of the Union is a presidential record, which must go to the National Archives under the Presidential Records Act,” Nourse said “(Pelosi) did not mutilate the record that is filed with the Archives.”
The purpose of the records law “is to prevent someone from depriving the government from the use of its documents,” so Pelosi’s move “doesn’t fit within the statute,” added Kathleen Clark, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.
There are probably countless copies of Trump’s address, such as the version the White House posted online. Pelosi’s action doesn’t preclude future generations from accessing one.
“If the statute were not read this way, then any copy of the State of the Union held by anyone could never be destroyed,” Nourse said.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/05/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-wrongly-suggests-pelosi-broke-law-rip/