
Credit: Jabin Botsford, The Washington Post
- Editor’s note: With the “bombshell reports that Russia offered bounties to Afghan militants for targeted killings of U.S. troops overseas” taking over the news cycles, we should not lose sight of the malfeasance of Attorney General William P. Barr, appointed as the Attorney of “We The People,” who has become Trump’s personal attorney. His threat to democracy and the rule of law is VERY serious!
- The stories below underscore this concern:
All the worrisome things happening at the DOJ could be just the tip of the iceberg
Barbara McQuade Trump fires Geoffrey Berman, exposing Barr’s bully tactics and lies in the process
U. S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman was investigating Giuliani and Trump’s Deutsche Bank debt
65 faculty members from AG Barr’s law school [GWU] alma mater say he has ‘failed to fulfill his oath of office’ – Calls for Barr’s Censure, Resignation
Congress Should Subpoena William Barr and Geoffrey Berman – TIME Magazine, by Joyce White Vance, distinguished professor of the practice of law at the University of Alabama, a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst.
William Barr hasn’t just destroyed the purpose of the DOJ, he’s eaten the department’s soul
Inside William Barr’s Effort to Undermine N.Y. Prosecutors
Barr’s botched effort to remove a prosecutor who probed Trump allies
James Comey: Geoffrey Berman upheld the finest tradition of the SDNY office
New DNC ‘Descent’ ad encapsulates all the ways Trump has ‘brought America down with him’ Click here for the ad.
Republicans literally try to drown out judiciary hearing on AG Barr by pounding the dais
“Bill Barr Is Eroding the Rule of Law. Don’t Let Him Get Away With It.”
“We are living in a troubled time where people are faced with a daily struggle to protect their families. The words of a federal prosecutor may seem to involve a remote threat, but our most fundamental rights are at stake here. The decay at the Department of Justice impacts all of us.”
“There is no future in this Department of Justice, the one that is led by Bill Barr. He has destroyed the public’s ability to have faith in the integrity of prosecutions. Typically, conversations about ethical conduct involving DOJ employees are about avoiding the appearance of impropriety, not about actual impropriety,” by Barbara McQuade and Joyce Vance, New York Magazine. Read more
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