With a vow to prosecute hoarders or scam artists who seek “to exploit the suffering of American citizens for their own profit,” President Donald Trump announced a new executive order aimed at malicious conduct related to the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Attorney General William Barr said he was working to protect the health and safety of his personnel while ensuring the law was enforced “at full throttle.” […]
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ABC News chief legal analyst and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams said that the content of federal Judge Reggie Walton’s order demanding the unredacted Mueller report constitutes a “stunning rebuke” of Attorney General Bill Barr. On Friday’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski teed up the story of Judge Walton’s order in a lawsuit seeking the release of the unredacted Mueller report, […]
The House Judiciary committee has demanded that Attorney General William Barr hands over any communications President Donald Trump sent relating to the sentencing of his longtime friend Roger Stone. In a letter released Friday morning, committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler made the urgent request to Barr that he had over any information which may show “improper political interference, including by President Trump, in enforcement matters handled […]
An independent government ethics watchdog group filed a formal complaint calling for an investigation into several top-ranking Justice Department officials, claiming they “unlawfully interfered” with the criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump’s friend Roger Stone and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. In the six-page complaint, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), highlighted the “highly unusual involvement” of Attorney General William Barr, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and U.S. Attorney […]
George Washington University Law Prof. Jonathan Turley was watching the Roger Stone sentencing as we all were and concluded that the 40 months the latter received “vindicated” Attorney General William Barr’s intervention in the case. Turley, who recently defended his longtime friend Barr as someone who is not a “witless Trump troll,” fired off a couple of tweets saying that the Thursday result vindicated Barr. Stone […]
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs didn’t hold back Wednesday night taking aim at a report that Attorney General William Barr is considering stepping aside due to President Donald Trump applying pressure on him. Speaking with Byron York, a Fox News contributor, Dobbs rhetorically asked, “What the hell is wrong with Barr!?” Dobbs argued that Barr is “wrong,” the president is “right,” and that the attorney representing the American […]
Alexander Drago/Reuters No matter who sits in the Oval Office or which party controls Congress, the rules of one Washington, D.C., game never change; nothing draws nearly uncritical media coverage like the “crisis of conscience” leak. The crisis of conscience leak is an old standby; the leader of an embattled agency or their deputies suddenly, shockingly discover that either the president or one of his policies […]
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy called out Democrats for having a “double standard” with their criticisms of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr. Doocy interviewed former federal prosecutor Brett Tolman on Tuesday, and the conversation revolved around reports saying Barr has considered resigning if Trump doesn’t stop tweeting about Justice Department investigations. Trump has admitted that his tweets put Barr in a difficult […]
Tuesday’s reports that Attorney General William Barr was considering resigning over interference from President Donald Trump have largely been received with a heavy dose of cynicism by political insiders. But ABC News Chief Legal Analyst, and Mediaite founder, Dan Abrams, provided a more nuanced take on the current dynamic currently at play. Barr made news last week when he said in an interview with ABC’s Pierre […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Many political thought leaders, and those who simply have a Twitter account, recently revealed deep skepticism of a new report saying Attorney General Bill Barr might quit his job. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday night that Barr is “considering quitting” over Donald Trump’s tweets about Justice Department matters. A source described Barr’s thinking by saying the AG “has his limits,” and the […]
The Washington Post tonight broke news that Attorney General Bill Barr is considering quitting over President Donald Trump’s continued tweets about DOJ cases. You’ll recall that last week, Barr said on TV that Trump’s tweeting makes it impossible for him to do his job. Now, per WaPo, he really is frustrated: Attorney General William P. Barr has told people close to President Trump — both inside […]
Joe Scarborough continued his nearly daily harangue against William Barr Tuesday morning, this time saying that the Attorney General has “started a search and destroy mission against all of the president’s perceived political opponents.” The biting comments come after The Atlantic published a rather stunning column by Donald Ayer who served as U.S. Deputy Attorney General under President George H. W. Bush, which concludes with the […]
Former Deputy Attorney General under George H.W. Bush, Daniel Ayer, joined MSNBC’s program All In With Chris Hayes with guest host Joy Reid to blast Attorney General William Barr over his unquestioned loyalty to President Donald Trump comparing Barr to aiding a “king.” Ayer previously worked with Barr at the Department of Justice. In an op-ed Monday in The Atlantic titled, Bill Barr must resign, Ayer […]
Over 2,000 former Justice Department officials have called on Attorney General William Barr to step down after he stepped in last week to rescind a sentencing recommendation of 7-9 years filed by four anti-Trump career prosecutors, resulting in their resignations. “It is unheard of for the Department’s top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a […]
Joe Biden is joining the chorus of voices calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign. Over 1000 former federal prosecutors and DOJ officials co-signed a letter saying Barr should resign after the events of last week, particularly concerning the DOJ reversing the sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace asked Biden if he would join those calls in an interview Monday. The former veep […]
One of the more than 1,000 former career DOJ officials who signed a letter demanding Attorney General William Barr’s resignation went on cable news on Monday afternoon and explained his position. He said that it was important for the history books to show that “everything Barr touches dies.” Gene Rossi, a Law&Crime Network trial analyst and former federal prosecutor with more than two decades of experience, […]
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer called on Attorney General William Barr to resign or be impeached, Monday, in an article for the Atlantic. In the article, titled “Bill Barr Must Resign,” Ayer, who served under President George H. W. Bush, claimed Barr desires “the creation of a president with nearly autocratic powers.” “Barr’s Federalist Society speech suggests that he is ready to […]
Last week, as questions rose about the DOJ reversing Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation following President Oonald Trump‘s tweet, Attorney General Bill Barr sat down with ABC News chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas for an interview critical of the president. Barr told Thomas POTUS should stop tweeting about criminal cases and that “I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that […]
The former Deputy Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush on Monday penned an op-ed in The Atlantic calling for the resignation of William Barr, saying Barr’s “long-held belief in the need for a virtually autocratic executive” clearly illustrates his “unfitness for office.” The op-ed was published one day after more than 1,100 former DOJ officials (cable news legal analysts included) signed on to an open […]
The impact of Attorney General William Barr’s intervention in the Roger Stone sentencing won’t just be felt in the cases concerning President Donald Trump’s allies, current and former Justice Department officials warn. It’s cost the Justice Department one of its top public-corruption prosecutors at a time when public corruption is looking like a growth industry. That attorney is Jonathan Kravis. Kravis is the deputy chief of […]
General Michael Flynn seems to be getting a lifeline from the attorney general following his claim that prosecutors in the Mueller investigation “concocted the alleged false statements” he was accused of making. Attorney General William Barr has assigned an outside prosecutor to examine the criminal case against US President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, according to a report from the New York Times. St. Louis […]
A week of two-tiered legal shenanigans was capped off on Friday with a New York Times report that Attorney General William Barr has assigned an outside prosecutor to scrutinize the government’s case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, which the Times suggested was “highly unusual and could trigger more accusations of political interference by top Justice Department officials into the work of career prosecutors.” […]
While Attorney General William Barr continues his investigation into Russiagate for which Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said ‘half the people are going to jail‘ if we ‘just hang tight,’ Democrats across the board are calling for his resignation – or impeachment, following his decision to overrule federal prosecutors on their recommended sentence for former Trump adviser Roger Stone. There’s also been talk of a second Trump […]
In an unusual break with the president, US Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News that Trump “has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case” but should stop tweeting about the Justice Department because his tweets “make it impossible for me to do my job.” Barr’s comments come after the president demoaned the lengthy sentence demanded by prosecutors in the Roger Stone case, […]