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Does the justice department work for the Trump campaign now? Barr thinks so The US attorney general seems determined to turn the DoJ into a fully fledged arm of the Trump re-election team ‘Using the justice department in this way undermines the integrity and professionalism of the lawyers and prosecutor who work there.’ Photograph: Susan […] More
Welcome to William Barr’s America, where the truth makes way for the president Lloyd Green The justice department has announced it will drop its case against Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI – we know why ‘This is just another episode of Barr’s fealty to Trump.’ Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters Welcome to […] More
Revelation comes days after Barr took swipe at president over apparent intervention in Roger Stone case The attorney general, William Barr, has told people close to him he is considering quitting his post, after Donald Trump failed to heed his warning to stop tweeting about justice department cases, administration officials told the Washington Post and […] More
Donald Trump has falsely claimed he is ‘the chief law enforcement officer’ in the US. The chief law enforcement officer in the country is actually the attorney general, William Barr. Barr recently requested that Trump stop tweeting about about the justice department because it makes it ‘impossible for me to do my job’. Continue reading… More
More than 1,000 public servants decry presidential interference Aide Conway claims justice system rigged against Trump Robert Reich: assaulting justice, Trump has out-Nixoned Nixon More than 1,000 former US justice department officials, including some of the top government lawyers in the country, have called on attorney general William Barr to resign in the wake of […] More
After Watergate, we worked for impartiality. Trump, Roger Stone and William Barr have dragged us back to the swamp “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes,” Mark Twain is supposed to have said. My first job after law school was as an attorney at the Department of Justice (DoJ). I reported for work September […] More
President tweets that he did not interfere in Roger Stone case – ‘but this doesn’t mean I do not have the legal right to do so’ Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 3.47pm GMT Trump enjoys sewing division in the Democratic primary race, as the party’s hopefuls battle for […] More
Attorney general says he will not be ‘bullied’ over decisions but some observers question his motives The US attorney general, William Barr, publicly rebuked Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that the president’s tweets about the case of Roger Stone “make it impossible for me to do my job” and that he would not be “bullied […] More
