Trump asks judge to dismiss classified documents case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The law has been challenged many times in court, including under the "vagueness doctrine," a constitutional principle that requires criminal laws to state explicitly what conduct is punishable.
49% : The former president has four arguments why the case should be tossed: that his actions were protected under the Presidential Records Act; that the special counsel was unlawfully appointed; that the Espionage Act is unconstitutionally vague; and that he enjoys presidential immunity.
43% : The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1941 in Gorin v. United States that the Espionage Act was sufficiently clear to convict a naval intelligence officer for selling classified information to a Soviet spy.
41% : Trump was indicted last year on charges he took boxes of classified documents from the White House and stored them at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
37% : The defense argues in the first motion that the Presidential Records Act granted Trump the authority to designate classified documents as personal records instead of presidential records.
32% : Trump faces 32 charges under the 1917 law, which prohibits the "unauthorized possession" of any materials relating to the national defense that could be used to injure the United States or benefit a foreign nation.
25% : Trump and two employees, De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, conspired to hide the records from federal authorities and destroy surveillance footage that captured the crime, prosecutors say.
23% : Trump claims that Garland assigned Smith the investigation without the consent of the Senate, violating the "appointment clause" of the Constitution.
17% : Trump argues the law becomes unconstitutionally vague when applied to a president, however.
16% : In the third motion, Trump says the language of the Espionage Act is too vague to be enforceable.

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