A federal judge in Washington ruled on Wednesday that senior White House officials must follow the Presidential Records Act, directly challenging a Justice Department opinion that suggested President Donald Trump could ignore the law and raising fresh questions over whether the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional, as claimed by the administration's own lawyers.
The news came after months of mounting tension over record‑keeping inside the Trump White House. Earlier this spring, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a memo arguing that the Presidential Records Act, or PRA, overstepped Congress's authority and infringed on what it described as the 'independence and autonomy' of the presidency.
