Former US archivists warn that Trump’s effort to ignore records law jeopardizes national security and government continuity
- Posted on August 27, 2026
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Former US archivists warn that Trump’s effort to ignore records law jeopardizes national security and government continuity
Former leaders of the National Archives — which preserves and protects the nation’s most important documents — are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s effort to ignore the Presidential Records Act, a decades old law that requires presidents save all official records from their time in office.
