“Of course they did! They may have been the boxes etc. that were openly and plainly brought from the White House, as is my right under the Presidential Records Act,” Trump posted on social media.

  • Madison420@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If it’s a law they have a legal duty, your hedging doesn’t particularly make sense.

    legal

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    adjective

    le·​gal ˈlē-gəl 

    Synonyms of legal

    1

    : of or relating to law

    She has many legal problems.

    2

    a

    : deriving authority from or founded on law : DE JURE

    a legal government

    b

    : having a formal status derived from law often without a basis in actual fact : TITULAR

    a corporation is a legal but not a real person

    c

    : established by law

    especially : STATUTORY

    the legal test of mental capacity—K. C. Masteller

    3

    : conforming to or permitted by law or established rules

    The referee said it was a legal play.

    Fishing in this lake is legal.

    4

    : recognized or made effective by a court of law as distinguished from a court of equity

    5

    : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the profession of law or of one of its members

    a bottle … that some legal friend had sent him—J. G. Cozzens

    6

    : created by the constructions of the law

    A legal fiction is something assumed in law to be a fact regardless of the truth of that assumption.

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    noun

    : one that conforms to rules or the law

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’m not getting into semantics, I’m talking about the original post I replied to, namely

      he has a clear duty to protect their secrecy

      Which is talking about a duty in derived sense, not a codified duty.