This article appears to confirm that the president “has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process".

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/

This article appears to confirm that the president “has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process". Experts agree that the president’s classification powers are very board and that they are “ultimately responsible for classification and declassification. According to a 1988 Supreme Court case and Article II of the constitution the court found that the control of access to information directly flows from the power of the President.

While interviewing a University Law professor they stated “"There’s no question that the president has broad authority to declassify almost anything at any time without any process”.

One reason that this article was deemed “mostly true” is because of two “caveats” the second being that it’s not a “sensible” idea. I would love to confirm with John Pike (the director of globalsecurity.org) that if a verified sources disagreed with Joe Biden’s declassification of documents that would be “somewhat illegal”?

Direct Quotes:

The president’s classification and declassification powers are broad

Experts agreed that the president, as commander in chief, is ultimately responsible for classification and declassification.

"The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ...  flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."

"There’s no question that the president has broad authority to declassify almost anything at any time without any process, but that’s not what happened here," said Stephen I. Vladeck, professor at the University of Texas School of Law. "He did not, in fact, declassify the information he shared with the Russians, which is why The Washington Post did not publish that information."

Turner noted, however, that this isn’t necessarily a big distinction, since the president is ultimately the decider of what is classified and not. If his appointees disagree with his actions, "he can overrule their decisions," Turner said. "Within the Executive Branch the president is the boss."

"The important caveat is that ‘legal’ and ‘sensible’ may be different things," said John Pike, the director of globalsecurity.org. "It may be legal, but it may fail to avoid the appearance of impropriety."

On the other hand, he said, it’s not outlandish to argue that sharing closely held information with Russia could advance, rather than hurt, national interests.

We found broad agreement that a president, using powers granted by the Constitution, is able to declassify essentially anything. However, experts added that Risch’s comment was not entirely on point for the particular situation involving Trump.

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