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29 May 2021, 6:41 am by Matt Gluck
Bob Bauer explained the attack on electoral institutions by Donald Trump and Republican state legislatures and outlined how to combat this dangerous effort. [read post]
25 May 2021, 11:36 am by Matt Gluck
  Bob Bauer discussed how Donald Trump and Republican state legislatures are seeking to politicize electoral processes and what can be done to counter these institutional assaults. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 8:42 am by Ed Yohnka
From the Park Police officer who beat a journalist as she was escaping the protest, all the way to former Attorney General Bill Barr, they have all invoked qualified immunity to avoid liability for their misconduct. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
Attorneys-General in the modern era (from Kennedy to Barr and beyond) and would be interested in speaking to any legal historians doing work on or related to that topic. [read post]
9 Mar 2021, 7:36 am by Bruce D. Brown, Gabe Rottman
When President Biden announced the nomination of Merrick Garland as the next attorney general, Biden criticized incendiary rhetoric against the press as contributing to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 10:50 am by Benjamin Wittes
In that piece, I anticipated with some precision the specific question Republicans would press Garland on at his hearing: Your predecessor, Attorney General Barr, committed during his Senate confirmation hearing to letting Bob Mueller finish his work, saying that Mueller could only be terminated for good cause and that it was unimaginable to him that Mueller would behave in such a fashion as to justify his dismissal. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Attorney General William Barr to Step Down Politico – Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney | Published: 12/14/2020 Attorney General William Barr is leaving his position, a decision that follows months of complaints from President Trump about the administration’s top lawyer. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Barr Taps Durham as Special Counsel, Pushing Probe into Biden Era Politico – Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein | Published: 12/1/2020 Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. attorney John Durham as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the FBI’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 12:11 pm by Benjamin Wittes
This, presumably, is Barr’s intention. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 11:11 am by Tom Smith
"The best thing to do would be to appoint them under the same regulation that covered Bob Mueller," Barr told the AP, "to provide Durham and his team some assurances that they'll be able to complete their work regardless of the outcome of the election. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 8:46 am by Quinta Jurecic
Both authors are writing to set the record straight—in Weissmann’s case, to establish the truth of the investigation’s conclusions in the face of repeated misrepresentations by Trump and Attorney General William Barr; and in Strzok’s case, to defend himself from years of vilification by the president and right-wing media over his text messages critical of the president, over which he was removed from the Mueller investigation and ultimately fired by the FBI. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Critics say Trump and Attorney General William Barr seem to be working in concert to undermine public confidence in the election result, and the newly issued guidance could aid in that effort – allowing prosecutors to publicize cases of suspected fraud they previously would have been barred from discussing. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 10:30 am by Henderson Hill
Despite Trump and Barr’s wishes, there is simply no way to ignore the health, safety, and humanity of incarcerated people, without degrading our own. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 8:30 am by Tia Sewell, Anna Salvatore
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith announced the publication of their new book, “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” and described the reasoning behind their work. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 1:16 pm by Anna Salvatore
Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez, aim to counteract China’s growing dominance in the tech field and to fund the U.S. [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 11:23 am by Michael Froomkin
Bob Barr (R-GA) as a special counsel “with the specific task of forming an Election Day operation using the FBI, federal marshals, and Republican state officials across the country to be prepared to file legal objections and if necessary to physically stand in the way of criminal activity. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 6:21 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Second, they have also knifed Attorney General William Barr in the back. [read post]