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29 May 2019, 12:45 pm by Amy Howe
Emphasizing that the 4th Circuit’s decision is wrong, and arguing that the government is being required to keep in place a policy that both the Department of Homeland Security and Attorney General William Barr have concluded “is unlawful and that sanctions the ongoing violation of federal law by more than half a million people,” the government asked the justices to grant the new petition, along with the three that are already pending, before the Supreme… [read post]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin have also stated that former attorneys general William Barr and Jeff Sessions could be facing subpoenas if they declined to testify about the secret data seizures. [read post]
13 Jun 2022, 12:23 pm by William Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
In a pretaped interview, Attorney General William Barr explicitly disavowed claims of fraud and said that all claims of fraud brought to him were so baseless that Trump would be “detached from reality” if he believed them. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 5:20 am
After HBGary's Aaron Barr started researching Anonymous, he was contacted by people at law firm Hunton & Williams and subsequently Booz Allen; the Hunton representatives said that they, along with Booz Allen, had been instructed to investigate WikiLeaks by an unnamed client. [read post]
The memo directed Attorney General William Barr to publish a list that identifies state and local jurisdictions that “permitted violence and the destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract these criminal activities. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 8:56 pm by Josh Blackman
In 1989, William Barr, the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, prepared a memorandum opinion for the Attorney General, concluding that private qui tam actions violate Article III standing doctrine and the separation of powers. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 6:45 am by Laurence H. Tribe
Although former Attorney General William Barr has argued that applying this longstanding rule in the Fox News lawsuit would deal a “major blow to media freedoms generally,” nothing could be further from the truth. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 9:31 am by Josh Blackman
On Thursday morning, Attorney General William Barr stated that he “disagreed with some of the Special Counsel’s legal theories. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 1:17 pm by Steve Vladeck
In all of these respects, what’s happening in Portland appears to be a reprise of much of what happened in Washington, D.C. at the beginning of June, when Attorney General William Barr called upon a wide array of statutory authorities to commandeer hundreds of federal law enforcement officers in order to “restore order” in the nation’s capital. [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 12:29 pm by Vishnu Kannan
The House will vote next Tuesday on whether to hold Attorney General WIlliam Barr and former White House counsel Donald McGahn in contempt for defying subopenas related to the Mueller report, the New York Times said. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 9:16 am by Elliot Setzer
District Court for the District of Columbia rebuked Attorney General William Barr for his handling of last year’s report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, reports the Washington Post. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 7:00 am by Brian Tashman
Other jurisdictions that ended their contracts in recent years include Mecklenburg and Wake counties, North Carolina; Las Vegas, Nevada; Harris County, Texas; Anne Arundel County, Maryland; and Prince William County, Virginia.While this program preceded Donald Trump, it exploded under his leadership, as former Attorneys General Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions and Trump himself pressured sheriffs to join. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 11:49 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin have also urged a Congressional investigation, weighing the possibility of subpoenaing former attorney generals Jeff Sessions and William Barr if they do not testify before Congress voluntarily. [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 1:11 pm by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
Judge Dabney Friedrich’s opinion established that federal officials, including former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr, could not be sued for damages in relation to the incident. [read post]
26 Jan 2019, 8:05 am by Lev Sugarman
Barbara McQuade and Chuck Rosenberg debated the question of whether attorney general nominee William Barr should accept the recusal advice from career ethics officials at the Justice Department. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:29 am by Elliot Setzer
Attorney General William Barr has appointed the U.S. attorney in the Western District of Texas to examine the routine practice of “unmasking,” which Republicans have charged was abused by the Obama administration, writes the Washington Post. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 8:17 am by Elliot Setzer
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday defended his controversial decision to use force to clear peaceful protestors from streets near the White House on Monday, saying it was a necessary move in response to “very serious rioting,” writes Politico. [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 8:23 am by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
We are grateful to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Democracy Fund for their support for this project. [read post]