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1 Sep 2020, 10:53 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
ABC News: “Current and former national security officials are raising concerns over Attorney General William Barr’s recent decision to remove the head of a Justice Department office that helps ensure federal counterterrorism and counterintelligence activities are legal – and replace him with a political appointee with relatively limited experience. [read post]
19 May 2022, 6:27 pm by Howard Bashman
“Pete Williams to retire from NBC News after epic Washington career; A former Pentagon spokesman, Williams made the unusual move 29 years ago to return to hard-news reporting; Many historic scoops followed”: Jeremy Barr of The Washington Post has this report. [read post]
15 Dec 2019, 9:34 am by Howard Bashman
Barr Is Trying to Erase the Truth; He’s smearing the Russia investigation and covering up Trump’s guilt”: William Saletan has this essay online at Slate. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 1:26 pm by Quinta Jurecic
This time, the dispute centers on an internal Justice Department memo—prepared in advance of the report’s public release—that could shed light on Attorney General William Barr’s decision to announce, misleadingly, that President Trump had not obstructed justice. [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 3:07 pm by Howard Bashman
“With DOJ’s intervention in Roger Stone case, William Barr cements his role as Trump’s defender-in-chief”: Kevin Johnson, Kristine Phillips, and Dennis Wagner of USA Today have this report. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 7:00 am by Daniel J. Hemel, Eric A. Posner
In an op-ed in the New York Times and a post on Lawfare, we criticized President Trump’s nominee to be the next attorney general, William Barr, for a memo he sent to Trump administration officials last June arguing that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should not be allowed to “interrogate” the president about allegations of obstruction of justice. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 8:34 am by Tinker Ready
Attorney General nominee William Barr this morning committed to “diligently uphold” the False Claims Act during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 10:44 am by Michael Rushford
Senate Confirms William Barr for AG:  The nomination of William Barr, a former Attorney General under President George H.W. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 6:00 am by Associated Press
Attorney General William Barr has told people close to him he’s considering quitting his post after President Donald Trump wouldn’t heed his warning to stop tweeting about Justice Department cases, an administration official told The Associated Press. [read post]
13 Aug 2022, 5:21 pm by Rick Hasen
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday launched a new legal group they say is aimed at defending state legislatures’ right to set election laws.The nonprofit… Continue reading [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 7:13 pm by Howard Friedman
Attorney General William Barr delivered a lengthy address (full text) on religious liberty at Notre Dame University. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 1:31 pm by Josh Blackman
On Dec. 1, Attorney General William Barr announced that he had appointed John Durham, the U.S. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 6:40 am by Howard Bashman
William Barr’s State of Emergency: The attorney general has long held an expansive view of presidential power; With multiple crises converging in the run-up to the 2020 election, he is busy putting his theories to work. [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 5:53 am by Daniel J. Hemel, Eric A. Posner
  In a New York Times op-ed last Friday, we wrote that William Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H.W. [read post]