DOJ Wants to End Crucial Watergate-Era Rule to Give Trump Cover

The Trump administration is fighting to make the executive branch even more secretive.A 52-page memorandum from the Justice Department reveals that the agency is putting up a fight against the Presidential Records Act. The department’s Office of Legal Counsel argued on April 1 that the 1978 law, which was passed in direct response to the fallout of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, is actually “unconstitutional.”The office further claimed that the congressionally passed act “exceeds” the legisl...