the president s power to declassify materials from their time in office. time in as usual, the left wasted no time attacking the president for saying that he hadauthorit the authority as president to declassify the documents. but they conveniently forgot about a twenty twelve ruling from an obama appointed judge named amy berman. jackson, the same judge who presided over, oh, roger stone s case and paul manafort case in which he ruled in this ruling that the ability to segregate personal records from presidential records is at see sole discretion of the president during his term.t and by the way, there s no sett standard on how to do with here with reaction. fox news legal analyst greg jarret and author of the new book, the price of principal bo. alan dershowitz. professor, let me start with you. congratulations on the book. i know you re familiar with theh case under the statutory scheme established by the presidential records act, the decision to segregate personal r materials