Daily Mail News
By ROSS IBBETSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Published: 08:17 EDT, 21 May 2026 | Updated: 12:41 EDT, 21 May 2026
Donald Trump’s White House staff have been ordered by a federal judge to preserve presidential records, including text messages, after the administration tried to dismiss a Watergate-era transparency law as ‘unconstitutional.’
US District Judge John Bates granted a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that requires White House staff to comply with the 1978 Presidential Records Act, enacted in the wake of the wiretapping scandal that felled Richard Nixon.
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