Does the president own presidential records?

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Tamara Keith.

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  I cover politics.

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  I'm Kerry Johnson.

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  I cover the Justice Department in Supreme Court.

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  And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

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  And today on the show, the Trump administration says a law designed to preserve presidential records is unconstitutional

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  and therefore President Trump does n't have to follow it.

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  Carrie, what is this law and what does it say exactly?

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  This law is called the Presidential Records Act.

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  President Jimmy Carter signed it all the way back in 1978.

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  And it makes clear that documents that are created or received by the president or the vice president

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  are actually materials that belong to the government.

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