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A perspective on the current archives issues

by: George Fujii

Category: News

Jan

13

Trump grasps the importance of the National Archives to democracy. Why don’t Democrats?

BY STEVEN L. KATZ, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 12/02/22 1:00 PM ET

Democrats continue to revel in the results of the midterm elections as a validation of democracy in the United States. Yet, with the exception of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, Democrats in Washington have studiously avoided championing the one agency that is central to the survival of our constitutional democracy: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

There is no archivist of the United States. The position has been vacant for more than seven months, throughout the malevolence and calamity, the rampant destruction of government records and constitutional crises at the hands of former President Trump.

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