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7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Judge Blasts Barr, Justice Dept. for ‘Disingenuous’ Handling of Secret Trump Obstruction Memo MSN – Spencer Hsu (Washington Post) | Published: 5/5/2021 A judge accused the Justice Department and then-Attorney General William Barr of misleading the court and public to hide how he decided former President Trump should not be charged for obstructing Robert Mueller’ s Russia investigation. [read post]
6 May 2021, 6:48 pm by Allan Blutstein
Judge's decision on Barr memo puts spotlight on secretive DOJ officeBy Harper Neidig & Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, May 6, 2021A small but powerful section of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is under renewed scrutiny after a federal judge tore into former Attorney General William Barr and ordered the DOJ to release a memo that let former President Trump claim he was exonerated by the Mueller probe.Critics of the Office of Legal Counsel… [read post]
Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court of Columbia issued a summary judgement Monday accusing then-Attorney General William Barr of misleading the court during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. [read post]
4 May 2021, 7:34 pm by Allan Blutstein
Schmidt, NY Times, May 4, 2021A federal judge in Washington accused the Justice Department under Attorney General William P. [read post]
20 Apr 2021, 5:45 pm by Tom Smith
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s last pick for the Supreme Court, has also sold a book — garnering a $2 million advance for a tome about how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feelings into how they rule, according to three publishing industry sources. [read post]
20 Apr 2021, 4:30 am by James Romoser
Here’s the Tuesday morning read: The Supreme Court’s Increasingly Dim View of the News Media (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court seems likely to back limits on immigrants seeking green cards (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post) High court seems ready to send virus funds to Alaska Natives (Jessica Gresko, Associated Press) What packing the Supreme Court would really do (Elizabeth Slattery, CNN) William Barr, Amy Coney Barrett land book deals (Daniel Lippman,… [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 9:07 pm by Meghan Downey
Former Attorney General William Barr officially made this finding last April when he issued a memorandum directing the Bureau to prioritize home confinement at institutions most affected by COVID-19. [read post]
The department under the previous attorney general William Barr has been accused of intervening in investigations to satisfy the personal interests of then-president Trump. [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 8:38 am by Cecillia Wang
Following four years of failed policies at the Department of Justice under the leadership of Jeff Sessions and William Barr, Garland has the opportunity — and the mandate — to restore civil rights and civil liberties left in tatters by the Trump administration. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 10:41 am by Joe Mullin
Officials like former Attorney General William Barr, FBI Director James Comey and numerous others have claimed that widespread encryption poses a severe danger to investigations because of the risk of “going dark,” and have called on technology companies to design secure systems that allow the government to access the contents of encrypted data upon request. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 6:40 am
Posted by Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School), on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Editor's Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, and Director of the Program on Corporate Governance, at Harvard Law School. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 7:43 am by Cassandra Stubbs
Although it was William Barr and Donald Trump who scheduled and pushed these executions amidst a deadly pandemic, it was the U.S. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 9:20 am by Attorney Ketchel
  As Attorney General William Barr noted in his memo to each U.S. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm by Megan Russo
Attorney General William Barr issued a memo in March directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to prioritize home confinement for eligible individuals instead of prison. [read post]