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In an interview with Fox News on Saturday, Bill Barr – Donald Trump’s former Attorney General – told viewers he thinks a second Trump administration would be “chaotic and not accomplish much.” Continue reading “Bill Barr: 2nd Trump Term Would Be ‘Chaotic And Not Accomplish Much’”
L-R Former Attorney General Bill Barr, Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie
Donald Trump took to social media to call his own former Attorney General Bill Barr a “gutless pig” after Barr told Fox News audiences that Trump is “toast” if even half of his federal indictment is true. Continue reading “Trump Calls His Former Attorney General A “Gutless Pig””
Lea Michele takes her first bow as Fanny Brice in ‘Funny Girl’ (screen capture)
Former Attorney General Bill Barr (image – Flickr/WhiteHouse)
Attorney General Bill Barr (image via Flickr/WhiteHouse – public domain)
Attorney General Bill Barr (image – Flickr/WhiteHouse)
…Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, an outstanding person, will become Acting Attorney General. Highly respected Richard Donoghue will be taking over the duties of Deputy Attorney General. Thank you to all! pic.twitter.com/V5sqOJT9PM
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 14, 2020
Trump Says Attorney General Bill Barr Will Step Down Weeks After Barr Said There Wasn't Widespread Voter Fraud https://t.co/m4a0EgRUbm via @zoetillman
— Sarah Mimms (@mimms) December 14, 2020
Bill Barr is out as attorney general. He couldn't even last the final 5 weeks of Trump's presidency.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 14, 2020
Quite a day.@JoeBiden elected (again)
Bill Barr resigns
We cross 300,000 deaths from covid in the USA
The vaccination phase starts.
And it's only 3 PM PST……— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 14, 2020
Donald Trump (image via Flickr/WhiteHouse)
The House Judiciary Committee is entitled to view secret grand jury evidence gathered by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, Judge Beryl A. Howell of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in a 75-page opinion. Attorney General William P. Barr had withheld the material from lawmakers.
Typically, Congress has no right to view secret evidence gathered by a grand jury. But in 1974, the courts permitted the committee weighing whether to impeach President Richard M. Nixon to see such materials — and, Judge Howell ruled, the House is now engaged in the same process focused on Mr. Trump.
“Tipping the scale even further toward disclosure is the public’s interest in a diligent and thorough investigation into, and in a final determination about, potentially impeachable conduct by the president described in the Mueller report,” she wrote.
In reaching her decision, Judge Howell rejected the contention by Mr. Trump and his allies that the investigation Democrats are pursuing, which has since expanded to encompass the Ukraine scandal, is not a legitimate impeachment inquiry.
Stunning rebuke of the DOJ’s argument from a federal judge: “The Department of Justice claims that existing law bars disclosure to the Congress of grand jury information,” Judge Howell wrote. “DOJ is wrong.”
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) October 25, 2019
Within that ruling today, Judge Howell put the nail in Republicans’ bitching about the House process under way, too. “Even in cases of presidential impeachment, a House resolution has never, in fact, been required to begin an impeachment inquiry.” In the ruling. Yeah.
— Branch Talley (@BranchTalley) October 25, 2019
Looks like Judge Howell agrees it’s an official impeachment inquiry even if Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch don’t https://t.co/EJrroren3F
— Howie Klein (@downwithtyranny) October 25, 2019
Attorney General Bill Barr (image via Flickr/WhiteHouse – public domain)
“Many states are adopting curriculum that is incompatible with traditional Judeo-Christian principles. … They often do this without any opt-out provision for religious families,” Barr said.
He particularly cited laws in New Jersey, California, and Illinois requiring an LGBT curriculum.
“The Orange County Board of Education in California issued an opinion that ‘parents who disagree with the instructional material … may not excuse their children from this instruction,'” he said, lamenting that in some cases parents are not “warned” about the material.
Schools already teach about the heroes of the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movements. What is the harm in teaching kids about the Stonewall uprising? As former Vice President Joe Biden pointed out at the LGBTQ Town Hall this week, almost half of all Americans incorrectly believe that federal law protects LGBTQ people from discrimination. Including some lessons on the struggles and accomplishments of LGBTQ Americans could help solve that issue.
Attorney General Bill Barr (image via Flickr/WhiteHouse – public domain)
Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter.
Barr’s personal involvement is likely to stoke further criticism from Democrats pursuing impeachment that he is helping the Trump administration use executive branch powers to augment investigations aimed primarily at the president’s adversaries.
Current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials expressed frustration and alarm Monday that the head of the Justice Department was taking such a direct role in re-examining what they view as conspiracy theories and baseless allegations of misconduct.
Barr has already made overtures to British intelligence officials, and last week the attorney general traveled to Italy, where he and Durham met senior Italian government officials and Barr asked the Italians to assist Durham, according to one person familiar with the matter.
And then, there’s this from the New York Times:
Donald Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Attorney General William P. Barr gather information for a Justice Department inquiry that Mr. Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials with knowledge of the call.
The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, one of the officials said, an unusual decision that is similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump.