Library of Congress Completes Digitization of 23 Early Presidential Collections
This is awesome! The Library of Congress has just finished a 20 year(!) project to digitize the papers of the Presidents from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. I hope GPO is going to catalog these collections so that the records get into library catalogs! The Library of Congress has completed a more than two decade-long […]
New CRS report: The Impeachment and Trial of a Former President
Thanks to the First Branch Forecast for pointing out this newly published legal sidebar “The Impeachment and Trial of a Former President.” We are in uncharted waters as President Trump has been impeached for the second time for “incitement of insurrection”, but the articles of impeachment have not yet been delivered to the Senate. This […]
NARA seeking public comment on a proposed rule concerning the digitization of public records
The first 2 weeks of 2021 have been a whirlwind and have included a failed insurrection at the nation’s capitol and the SECOND(!) impeachment of President Trump for inciting that insurrection! However crazy things may be at the moment, I wanted to call our readers’ attention to an extremely important announcement in the Federal Register […]
Reclaim the Records “mother-of-all-FOIA requests” and NARA’s new digitization partnership site
An activist group called Reclaim the Records recently submitted the “mother-of-all-FOIA requests” asking for billions of pages scanned through NARA’s public-private digitization partnership program. Here’s the twitter thread describing it: Hey! @USNatArchives just did something new, and really good for transparency! And we think it maybe *might* be because of that "mother-of-all-FOIA requests" we just […]
Trump Administration Buries Dozens Of Clean Energy Studies
“Documents obtained by InvestigateWest identify at least 46 reports from almost every program within the U.S. Energy Department’s energy efficiency and renewables office and seven national labs that have been stalled, downgraded or spiked.” https://www.invw.org/2020/10/26/trump-administration-buries-dozens-of-clean-energy-studies/