AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - Trump vs. the public's right to know
The Trump administration's moves to limit public access to government records are prompting warnings from watchdogs and historians. The big picture: As the Justice Department challenges the constitutionality of the Presidential Records Act and slow-walks some Freedom of Information Act requests , worries persist about weakened oversight and the government being enabled to spin a curated narrative of American history. - The Presidential Records Act and FOIA exist to preserve presidential documents as public property and to ensure access to government records, respectively. - "By erasing and deleting the information to which we are entitled, they are depriving the public of information ... to know whether their government has been…