America First Legal Sues HHS Secretary Becerra and National Archives Following Investigation Revealing the Biden Administration Illegally Deletes Former CDC Employees’ Email–Illustrating Two-Tiered Sy
America First LegalApr 17
Biden Admin. Sued for Allegedly Destroying Federal Records
The Facts
The advocacy group America First Legal (AFL) has filed a lawsuit against the US Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, US Archivist Colleen Shogan, and the National Archives and Records Admin. (NARA) for allegedly destroying federal records belonging to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The suit claims that, despite the Federal Records Act setting a retention period of three years for emails of lower-level employees, a freedom of information request from (AFL) revealed that the CDC destroys all lower-level employee emails "30 days after they leave the agency."
The Spin
Republican narrative
It's one rule system for the Biden administration and another rule system for Trump as AFL has once again exposed the two-tiered legal system that continues to ravage America. While the corrupt Dept. of Justice continues to chase after the former president, the CDC shows no respect for the law and is allowed to mishandle documents as it pleases — this miscarriage of justice must be immediately corrected.
Democratic narrative
AFL should not be considered a legitimate legal organization but rather an attention-seeking lawfare body consistently attempting to push its conservative agenda into media headlines. The large majority of AFL cases hold little to no legal grounds whatsoever — until bad faith entities such as these are punished for their behavior, America's legal system will only continue to be abused.
Nerd narrative
There is a 50% chance that Donald Trump's classified documents federal criminal trial will begin by Aug. 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.