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14 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
” by Colleen O’Dea for NJ Spotlight Pennsylvania: “15 Years After Ordinance Passed, Allegheny County Still Doesn’t Have E-filing of Campaign Finances” by Christopher Huffaker for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Elections National: “‘Being Governor Ain’t What It Used to Be’: How their road to the White House became an uphill climb” by Alan Greenblatt for Governing North Carolina: “NC Elections Boss Kim Strach Is Fired and a New Director Is… [read post]
14 May 2019, 1:16 pm by Elie Mystal
Butler General William Barr does the bidding of his irrational boss. [read post]
14 May 2019, 12:01 pm by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr is stepping up the probe into the origins of the Russia investigation, naming a U.S. attorney to oversee the investigation and working with intelligence chiefs to see how surveillance was conducted. [read post]
14 May 2019, 9:03 am by Coleman Saunders
Attorney General William Barr appointed John H. [read post]
14 May 2019, 6:42 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” according to a person familiar with the issue.Barr appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to conduct the inquiry, the person said. [read post]
14 May 2019, 4:47 am by Andrew Kent
Goldsmith, William Barr (while a private citizen) and others have made the argument that statutes like § 1512, which do not expressly apply to the president, must be construed as not constraining the president if such application would involve a possible conflict with the president’s constitutional prerogatives. [read post]
14 May 2019, 4:21 am
"... according to two people familiar with the matter, a move that President Trump has long called for but that could anger law enforcement officials who insist that scrutiny of the Trump campaign was lawful. [read post]
12 May 2019, 9:11 am by Eugene Volokh
McConnell's judgment a great deal, so I thought I'd pass along his National Review Online article: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has declared it a "constitutional crisis" that Attorney General William Barr refuses to divulge the small parts of the Mueller report that contain grand-jury material. [read post]
11 May 2019, 7:18 am by Jack Goldsmith
(Two other OLC opinions, one written by William Barr in 1989, the other by Ted Olson in 1984, applied the different but related constitutional avoidance canon to read a criminal statute to exclude the president.) [read post]
10 May 2019, 6:56 pm by Howard Bashman
William Barr is Trump’s Roy Cohn, But Are Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh His Warren Burger, Harry Blackmun, and Lewis Powell? [read post]
10 May 2019, 9:24 am by Jonathan Spontarelli
National/Federal A Lawsuit About Trump and the NRA Could Upend How the Government Polices Campaign FinanceMother Jones – Nihal Krishan | Published: 5/1/2019 A lawsuit involving the National Rifle Association (NRA) is poised to act as a major test for the FEC chairperson’s new strategy to force the agency to take more aggressive action to police campaign finance law. [read post]
10 May 2019, 8:40 am by Tom Smith
He made a permanent record of his complaint about Barr's sanitized letter, and Barr hid that record from Congress. [read post]
10 May 2019, 3:01 am by Jim Sedor
    National/Federal A Lawsuit About Trump and the NRA Could Upend How the Government Polices Campaign Finance Mother Jones – Nihal Krishan | Published: 5/1/2019 A lawsuit involving the National Rifle Association (NRA) is poised to act as a major test for the FEC chairperson’s new strategy to force the agency to take more aggressive action to police campaign finance law. [read post]
9 May 2019, 5:28 pm by Tom Smith
The problem is that the contempt action against Barr is long on action and short on contempt. [read post]
9 May 2019, 3:19 pm by Margaret Taylor
On May 8, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives voted 24-16 to recommend a resolution to the full House that would hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena issued by Chairman Jerrold Nadler. [read post]
9 May 2019, 10:21 am by Kent Scheidegger
Jonathan Turley has this op-ed in The Hill:The House Judiciary Committee is voting to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress and to secure a vote of the entire House of Representatives in order to send the matter to federal court. [read post]
9 May 2019, 8:20 am by Keith Whittington
" Only if Attorney General William Barr can be cross-examined by committee staff in a public hearing will we be able to avoid Donald Trump making "himself a king. [read post]
9 May 2019, 6:03 am by Associated Press
The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the Democrats' extraordinary legal battle with the Trump administration over access to special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report . [read post]
8 May 2019, 5:23 pm by Jonathan Shaub
As widely reported, President Trump has formally asserted executive privilege in response to the House judiciary committee’s plan to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the committee’s subpoena seeking the full, unredacted Mueller report and the underlying documents. [read post]