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Chioma Chukwu

Chioma Chukwu is a lawyer and executive director of American Oversight, a government-transparency organization. She previously worked as general counsel to the House Oversight Committee.

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DI has documented statements by Chioma Chukwu on Government Transparency and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Chioma Chukwu

Chioma Chukwu

Role at the time: Executive director of American Oversight

Condemned

Statement summary

Chukwu asks the appeals court to uphold the order requiring White House officials to preserve presidential records.

“Records that are destroyed are gone for good. We are asking the appeals court to uphold that order, because the historical record of the presidency belongs to the American people.”
Read the official statement (opens in a new tab)Chukwu and Weicksel defend presidential-record preservationStatements by Chioma Chukwu and Sarah Weicksel
Why we used this label

Chukwu opposes the administration's challenge by asking the court to keep the preservation requirements in force.

Read statementDOJ's constitutional challenge to the Presidential Records Act

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