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17 Sep 2020, 8:22 am by Jon Brodkin
Enlarge / William Barr, US attorney general, center, arrives for a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. [read post]
12 May 2020, 7:36 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
NBC News: “More than 60 current and former NFL players and coaches signed their names to a letter last week asking Attorney General William Barr to use the full force of federal law to investigate the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was followed and fatally shot by white men in his Georgia community in February. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 4:20 am by SHG
District Judge Cynthia Rufe, who heads the independent Federal Judges Association, said the group “could not wait” until its spring conference to weigh in on a deepening crisis that has enveloped the Justice Department and Attorney General William Barr. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 11:34 am by Scott R. Anderson
On the morning of April 18, just hours before the long-awaited release of the Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr convened a press conference to reiterate what he viewed as the report’s “bottom line”: that the special counsel had failed to find sufficient evidence to show that President Trump or his campaign had colluded with Russia or obstructed subsequent investigations. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 4:00 pm by Michael Froomkin
Attorney General William Barr is reported to be sending Bureau of Prison riot control troops to Washington, D.C. and … Miami. [read post]
1 Aug 2019, 5:31 am by Sara E. Teller
Attorney General William Barr decides not to charge officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. [read post]
8 May 2020, 5:56 am by Brian Leiter
William Barr would have fit in well, however, in Franco's Spain, a country then run by reactionary Catholics. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 7:16 pm by Howard Bashman
“AG Barr’s Justice Department has whole lotta love for Led Zeppelin; The legal dispute centers on whether the famous opening of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was ripped off”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report. [read post]
9 Nov 2019, 5:39 pm by Allan Blutstein
Democratic senators seek documents on Trump's alleged call for Barr press conferenceBy Tal Axelrod, The Hill, Nov. 9. 2019Three Democratic senators sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Attorney General William Barr on Friday seeking documents regarding President Trump’s alleged request that Barr hold a press conference saying no laws were broken during a July phone call with Ukraine.Read more here. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 12:49 pm by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
ABC News is reporting that Attorney General William Barr has removed Brad Wiegmann from his role as deputy assistant attorney general for national security, the Department of Justice’s top national security policy position—a role that Wiegmann has held as a career official for over a decade. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 1:41 pm by Herb Lin
Attorney General William Barr gave a speech on encryption at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 that went over the usual law enforcement arguments for exceptional access. [read post]
23 May 2019, 8:35 pm by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday granted Attorney General William Barr new powers to review and potentially release classified information related to the origins of the Russia investigation, a move aimed at accelerating Barr’s inquiry into whether U.S. officials improperly surveilled Trump’s 2016 campaign. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 6:44 am by Brad Wendel
Barr submitted a detailed plan to Hunton & Williams for an extensive investigation into U.S. [read post]
16 Jan 2020, 8:33 am by Howard Bashman
“The Trump Administration Doesn’t Get to Decide What’s in the Constitution: Somebody has to determine whether the ERA is valid or not, and without quite saying so, the Department of Justice is claiming that person is none other than Attorney General William Barr. [read post]
12 Jul 2020, 12:54 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Halted Progress of Criminal-Justice Reform; Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr”: Jeffrey Toobin will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the July 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker. [read post]
20 Dec 2020, 7:08 am by Howard Bashman
William Barr: ‘One Standard of Justice’; The departing attorney general talks about John Durham, Robert Mueller, Hunter Biden, Mike Flynn and the flak he’s taken from both parties. [read post]