{"id":1607377,"date":"2022-08-15T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607377"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:51:13","slug":"trump-has-constitutional-authority-to-declassify-anything-he-wants-mike-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-has-constitutional-authority-to-declassify-anything-he-wants-mike-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Has Constitutional Authority to Declassify \u2018Anything He Wants\u2019: Mike Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-has-constitutional-authority-to-declassify-anything-he-wants-mike-davis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The documents seized by the FBI from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort have already been declassified under the president\u2019s \u201cinherent constitutional power,\u201d according to Mike Davis, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[President Trump] has the constitutional authority to declassify anything he wants,\u201d Davis said in an Aug. 12 interview with NTD. \u201cAnd so, when he sent boxes out of the White House, he declassified them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a newly unsealed receipt of the Aug. 8 raid, the FBI has taken 11 sets of \u201cclassified documents\u201d from the former First Family\u2019s Florida home, including one labeled as \u201cvarious classified\/TS\/SCI documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Files that contain sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI), a classification above top secret (TS), may only be stored, handled, or discussed in designated secure facilities. Such a facility had been set up at Mar-a-Lago during the first term of Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2017-04-07T174106Z_2_LYNXMPED3617X_RTROPTP_3_MIDEAST-CRISIS-SYRIA.jpg\"><\/a> In this 2017 photo, President Trump and his national security team are briefed after a missile strike on Syria while inside the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. (The White House\/Handout via Reuters) <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s constitutionally sound for a president to decide which information is classified and which is not, said Davis, citing the Supreme Court decision in the 1987 case known as Department of the Navy v. Egan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president, after all, is the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, according to Article II of the Constitution,\u201d the high court\u2019s 5\u20133 majority opinion reads. \u201cHis authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security \u2026 flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the president, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means that he [President Trump] has inherent constitutional authority under the Commander-in-Chief Clause in the Constitution, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documents seized by the FBI from Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort have already been declassified under the president\u2019s \u201cinherent constitutional power,\u201d according to Mike Davis, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. \u201c[President Trump] has the constitutional authority to declassify anything he wants,\u201d Davis said in an Aug. 12 interview with NTD. \u201cAnd [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1256,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}