Legal Opinion

Applicability of the Presidential Records Act to the White House Usher's Office

Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel

Decided July 13, 2007Published

1Opinion of the Court

Applicability of the Presidential Records Act to the White House Usher’s Office Because the White House Usher’s Office is part of the President’s “immediate staff” or, alternatively, would be “a unit . . . of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise and assist the President,” any documentary materials “created or received [by the Office] in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President” constitute “Presidential records” under the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the PressSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  2. Smith v. City of JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
  3. Katherine Anne Meyer v. George Bush, Chairman, Task Force on Regulatory ReliefCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1993
  4. Scott Armstrong, Appellees/cross-Appellants v. Executive Office of the President, Appellants/cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1996
  5. Rodney R. Sweetland III v. Gary J. Walters, Chief Usher, Executive Residence, the White HouseCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1995

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