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Politics
Jacob Sullum

The Legally Authorized Charges Against Donald Trump and Hunter Biden Don't Tell Us What Justice Requires

As Republicans see it, the Justice Department is coming down hard on Donald Trump for political reasons, while it is going easy on Hunter Biden because he is the president's son. Although there are plausible grounds for both assessments, they glide over the question of what justice would look like in these cases.

Trump left the White House with thousands of presidential records, including hundreds that were marked as classified, and resisted efforts to recover them. Under the Presidential Records Act, he claims, he had "the absolute right to do whatever I want with them."

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