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Appeals judges question DOJ claim that White House records belong to Trump personally

A federal appeals panel questioned the Justice Department's argument that papers created in the White House belong to Trump rather than the public. The Presidential Records Act, passed in 1978 after Nixon, made such records public property. NPR reports the case could end up at the Supreme Court; conservative lawyer Michael Edney told a Federalist Society webinar the administration "want[s] this to go to the Supreme Court."