If Trump Mar-a-Lago raid is designed to keep him off the 2024 ballot, it may not work
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Former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was searched by the FBI on Monday. Some Democrats hope that the search results could keep Trump off the 2024 ballot. They may be very wrong.
I previously testified in Congress on the earlier seizure of the boxes at Mar-a-Lago under the Presidential Records Act and how criminal prosecutions have been rare under the law. Nevertheless, criminal charges are possible, including under Section 2071 which states that anyone who "willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys … any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited … in any public office." That crime, however, requires a showing of not just negligence but "an act is ... done voluntarily and intentionally and with the specific intent to do something the law forbids."