As a Christian, these legislators are committing idolatry. Scripture as a whole may be holy, but each book is just a book. God’s going to be more insulted by being invoked for budgetary procedure than by a printout of text being sat on.

I forget if it’s one exchange or two, but there’s a transcript where Trump tells someone:

Hey, check this out, but don’t get too close, it’s classified and you aren’t cleared to see it … You know, when I was president, I could have declassified this, but I didn’t, and now I can’t. That’s pretty funny, right?

You just get everything in those two statements. Knowledge, intent, showing it to someone you know isn’t cleared.

I also agree, though. We should restrict how people are allowed to interact with classified documents. They shouldn’t have been in Pence or Biden’s houses at all. It should be the kind of work no one takes home.

This is what happens when you say real lawyers don’t take notes

And then refuse to pay your lawyers

And then lie to your lawyers so they sign false statements to the government

Oh yeah, I remember that atcth beginning of all that. The DOJ told Trump to give back all the documents he took with him. He actually lied to his lawyers to get them to dertify that he had given them all back.

Imo, that’s a reasonable measure. While you or I wouldn’t have any need to take a classified document home with us, both Pence and Biden had to give documents back from their home. I guess as executives, it happens.

Trump, though, is a trophy hoarder, so he refused to give them up.

That’s not really accurate. The polls were going back and forth for over a month leading up to the election, and the FBI announce they were re-opening the case into Clinton’s emails 3 days before voting day. The polls just didn’t have the time to reflect that change.