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2 Sep 2021, 12:34 pm
The report shows the chronologies of the Trump-era department’s efforts to obtain records from New York Times, CNN and Washington Post reporters to advance leak investigations, all of which had the approval of then-Attorney General William Barr. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 12:00 am
Effort to Learn Source of Leaks for Post Stories Came in Barr’s Final Days as AG, Court Documents Show MSN – Devlin Barrett and Spencer Hsu (Washington Post) | Published: 7/13/2021 Newly unsealed court documents show the Justice Department under Donald Trump sought a court order for the communications records of three Washington Post reporters in the final days of William Barr’s tenure as attorney general in 2020, as prosecutors sought to identify… [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 11:23 am
The request, made a day before former Attorney General William Barr left office, also suggests the Justice Department may have felt that someone in Congress had communicated the details of Kislyak’s conversations with the press. [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 7:00 am
Additionally, the 2020 demands were likely authorized after Attorney General William Barr installed a new prosecutor at the National Security Division in February of that year to “revive” certain leak investigations, so the 2017 anti-leak initiative appears to have flowed into the waning days of the Trump administration. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 4:27 pm
“Attorney General Merrick Garland orders pause of federal executions; Thirteen people on federal death row were executed between July 2020 and January 2021 after then-Attorney General William Barr federal prison officials to carry them out”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 6:03 pm
“America owes thanks to Trump’s lawyers — even William Barr”: George T. [read post]
27 Jun 2021, 12:27 pm
Former Attorney General William Barr bluntly dismissed some of former President Donald Trump's election fraud allegations as "bulls***" in new interviews published Sunday in the Atlantic. [read post]
27 Jun 2021, 7:46 am
“Inside William Barr’s Breakup With Trump: In the final months of the administration, the doggedly loyal attorney general finally had enough. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 4:00 am
Federal Judge Tosses Most Claims Against Trump, Barr and U.S. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 8:53 am
On June 21, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed several claims in the overlapping suits filed by Black Lives Matter, the American Civil Liberties Union and others against former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General William Barr and a number of federal and local officers and agencies for the forcible clearing of protestors in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020. [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 1:11 pm
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]
21 Jun 2021, 1:04 pm
In October 2020, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (a Clinton appointee) had rejected arguments put forward by the Justice Department, then helmed by William Barr, that the United States should be substituted as the defendant in the civil claim filed by Carroll. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 11:49 am
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]
12 Jun 2021, 11:16 am
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]
11 Jun 2021, 10:06 am
Though the records of legislators, aides and family members first seized under former Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not evince leaks from the committee to the media, William Barr sought to resuscitate and maintain the investigation during his tenure as attorney general. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 1:26 pm
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]
29 May 2021, 6:41 am
As we mark the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s killing, Lawfare authors considered the subject of police reform. [read post]
27 May 2021, 9:57 am
Bryce Klehm shared the 2019 memo released by the Justice Department this week advising then-Attorney General William Barr on how to manage the Mueller report’s description of potential obstruction of justice crimes committed by former President Trump. [read post]
26 May 2021, 10:33 am
On May 25, the Justice Department released a redacted version of a 2019 memo that, according to the department, advised Attorney General William Barr on how to handle the Mueller report’s descriptions of possible obstruction of justice offenses committed by then-President Trump. [read post]
26 May 2021, 10:09 am
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday released a part of an internal memo that was used in 2019 by former Attorney General William Barr in his decision not to prosecute former President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice. [read post]