Try reading the law.
The president can take and do what ever he likes with personal records not presidential records. The Presidential Records Act establishes that presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office. And yes as the legal owner of presidential records the Archivist can demand all presidential records be included.
Where does this state that the Archivist has the power to demand anything? It doesn't
It also does not give the power to the Archivist to demand anything. He can provide a list and ask nothing else .
There are also zero federal or civil penalities in the entire ACT. Odd you can't find that anywhere .......where you searched for some left wing think tank to come up with an excuse for you.
According to the law .... — in this case in particular. A criminal violation of those statutes only exists if it can be established that the person being investigated was not authorized to possess, store, transfer or copy those documents. This is an easy element to establish against anyone in America. Except one person.
In the case building against Biden .....Hunter had no legal right to casually read the Classified Documents ....
• Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal have been obtained in writing.
• Establishes in law that any incumbent Presidential records (whether textual or electronic) held on courtesy storage by the Archivist remain in the exclusive legal custody of the President and that any request or order for access to such records must be made to the President, not NARA.
