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National Archives Commits a Supreme Error

By America Rising Squared, Nov. 13, 2017

Three years ago, the National Archives and Records Administration unveiled a majestic eagle as its new logo.  It has not taken long for the agency, like Icarus, to fly too close to the sun.

A few months after Donald Trump’s election dashed whatever hope Judge Merrick Garland still harbored to fill Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court seat, the National Archives and Records Administration submitted a report to the Attorney General that took credit for a seemingly remarkable feat:

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