Gary Stern has been the general counsel for the National Archives and Records Administration since 1998.
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The general counsel for the National Archives and Records Administration... previously sued then-President Ronald Reagan in 1989 while working at the American Civil Liberties Union.
Stern spoke on a panel in January 2021 called "Preserving Presidential Papers and Archives. In response to a question about someone leaving government and taking presidential records with them, Stern said...."we can enforce that with the support of the Department of Justice to file a legal claim."
Katie Sullivan, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Trump Justice Department, said that the situation....appeared to her "like this has been something that was certainly cooked up for some time."