> The Trump administration is arguing that the military information contained in these texts was not classified—as it typically would be—although the president

> The Trump administration is arguing that the military information contained in these texts was not classified—as it typically would be—although the president has not explained how he reached this conclusion. It's been a minute since the classified-documents case was surreptitiously scuttled by the <checks notes> Honorable Judge Aileen Cannon — so The Atlantic must have forgotten that Trump can change the law by thinking about it, and that he did change the law by thinking that he could declassify documents by thinking that they are declassified, even later in time than the point at which that later thinking about the declassification actually had the effect of declassifying them. We have concepts of a justice system.