Ross: How Trump’s culture war reached the National Archives

I noticed that, as part of the tussle between Donald Trump and the National Archives over those presidential documents, Trump’s lawyers argued that the National Archives is a “highly-politicized agency” that has put “content warnings on the US Constitution.”

And that – is partly accurate!

If you click on the National Archives Catalog page, a banner says “Potentially Harmful Content Alert”. And when you click on the banner, you get a statement explaining that the documents in the collection “contain some content that may be harmful or difficult to view.”

It goes on to explain that some of the documents “reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and

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