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Indeed, on the day that the Supreme Court released its two blockbuster decisions dealing with one aspect of Trump’s argument for an unchecked presidency, Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, testified about Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to force him out while he was investigating Trump-related matters. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  Last July the News Roundup noted that Attorney General William Barr had announced that the Department of Justice would reinstate a policy allowing the federal government’s use of capital punishment and that the first federal execution in nearly two decades was scheduled for last December. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 11:14 am by Elliot Setzer
” Berman testified behind closed doors today to discuss his dismissal as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, calling William Barr’s move to appoint an Acting U.S. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 6:58 am by Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel
In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr tapped Connecticut’s U.S. [read post]
8 Jul 2020, 10:22 am by Peter Margulies
Two judges—William Fletcher (a Clinton appointee) and Richard Clifton (a George W. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 8:25 am by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
Chuck Rosenberg analyzed Justice Department lawyer John Elias’s testimony last week describing interference by Attorney General William Barr within the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 2:50 pm by Joe Mullin
We know that a commission controlled by Attorney General William Barr will try to ban encryption, because Barr has said many times that he thinks encrypted services should be compelled to create backdoors for police. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 1:43 pm by Ana Popovich
 In March, Attorney General William Barr urged the public to use two new systems to report COVID-19 fraud. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 12:59 pm by Leo Caseria and Thomas Tyson
John Elias, a career DOJ antitrust attorney, recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the DOJ’s cannabis antitrust investigations, claiming the DOJ was not motivated by concern over anticompetitive effects but instead was driven by Attorney General William Barr’s animosity towards the cannabis industry. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 7:45 am by David Oscar Markus
Mueller submitted a report last year to Attorney General William Barr on possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Barr released a redacted version of that report in April 2019. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 7:26 am by Amy Howe
Mueller submitted a report last year to Attorney General William Barr on possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Barr released a redacted version of that report in April 2019. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 11:13 am by Chuck Rosenberg
Stone, a friend of the president, received improper consideration from Attorney General William Barr and an interim U.S. attorney in the form of a last-minute (and more favorable) sentencing recommendation from the government. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 12:40 pm by Joe Mullin
The EARN IT Act creates a 19-person commission that would be dominated by law enforcement agencies, with Attorney General William Barr at the top. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 8:32 am by Kate Ruane
Rather than provide measured solutions that would protect children, the EARN IT Act instead needlessly threatens our privacy and online speech rights.Attorney General William Barr, who will head the commission that writes the best practices and have near veto power over them, has identified strong encryption as one of the primary bars to effective law enforcement. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 1:06 pm by Jeralyn
The Supreme Court today let stand a ruling on the death penalty, and as a result, executions may now resume (as Attorney General William Barr has promised they would.) [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 11:22 am by Tom Smith
Piling on Barr has never been more popular — but the basis for this criticism has never been weaker. [read post]