A judge has dismissed a lawsuit complaining that President Donald Trump and his aides are failing to maintain legally required records of his meetings with foreign leaders.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said legal precedents don’t permit her to police the White House’s enforcement of the laws that govern the handling of executive branch records: the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.
“The Court is bound by Circuit precedent to find that it lacks authority to oversee the President’s day-to-day compliance with the statutory provisions involved in this case,” wrote Jackson, a Washington-based appointee of President Barack Obama. Continue reading.