Regarding Presidential declassification: Apparently someone tried to challenge the Trump Administration on “declassifying by ‘I declare declassification’” once before - and lost:

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a 2020 decision about whether public comments by then-President Trump had inadvertently declassified a covert CIA program:https://t.co/OH8Tk8MqJN pic.twitter.com/g9XB2EonsZ

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 12, 2022