Presidents don’t have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they’ve left office, a federal judge has ruled.
Some presidents might be embarrassed by their records in office. Public disclosure could tarnish their finely tuned “legacy.”
Following U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling, the presidential legacy belongs to the people who elected the president. That legacy includes both the achievements and the failures as recorded by the documents of the administration.
No former president may edit history.
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