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Nancy Pelosi May Now Be Facing Up to Three Years in Prison For Her Little Stunt

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***UPDATE***

Since the papers in Nancy Pelosi's hands were never "filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States," they were not an official government document. Therefore, she did not in violation of the code mentioned below.

More on the story, per Politifact:

'Her copy of the State of the Union address is not a government record or government property at all,' said Douglas Cox, professor of law at the City of New York University School of Law and an expert in the laws governing the preservation of government records. 'It is personal property.'

Under House rules, members of Congress are encouraged to preserve records or donate them to a research institution for historical study, Cox said. Unlike congressional committees, members are not legally required to hold onto their office's files.

'They can keep them private, they can destroy them, or they can rip them up,' he said.

This is in contrast to presidential records, which have been considered government property since the Presidential Records Act of 1978 and are supposed to be stored with the National Archives for safekeeping.

'The State of the Union is a presidential record, which must go to the National Archives under the Presidential Records Act,' Nourse said '(Pelosi) did not mutilate the record that is filed with the Archives.'

***END OF UPDATE***

As despicable as it was when Nancy Pelosi ripped up the speech at the conclusion of the State of the Union address, they may actually be some good come out of the whole situation.

It now looks like Nancy Pelosi may be doing some prison time for her little stunt.

Charlie Kirk, Founder of Turning Point USA, posted a tweet saying that Nancy Pelosi should be legally punished for what she did after the State of the Union address when she ripped up the speech that President Trump handed her.

US Code prohibits the destruction of government records

Nancy Pelosi may have just committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2071, Section 2071 (a) when she ripped up President Trump’s State of the Union address

This violation is punishable by up to three years in prison

The law states:

(a)Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(b)Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title V, § 552(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1566; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

Does what Nancy Pelosi did in the House gallery qualify for this law? No. This was not an official government document since it was not "filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States."

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