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Friday, January 10th, 2020

NYC Bar Association Asks Congress to Investigate AG Barr for Bias

Author:     Greg Farrell
Source:     Bloomberg
Publication Date:     January 9, 2020, 3:40 PM PST
 Link: NYC Bar Association Asks Congress to Investigate AG Barr for Bias
Stephan:   The only Attorney General remotely comparable to William Barr is Nixon's AG John Mitchell, who went to prison for 19 months in 1977. But Barr is much worse in my view. He is a true christofascist, which gives everything he does a theological motivation. I think he should be disbarred, impeached by Congress and possibly criminally prosecuted and imprisoned.

William Barr listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington in 2019.
Credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

The New York City Bar Association has asked Congress to investigate U.S. Attorney General William Barr, saying his recent actions and statements have positioned the Justice Department and its prosecutors as “political partisans willing to use the levers of government to empower certain groups over others.”

The request, disclosed on Thursday, appears to be the first time a bar association from New York City or any comparable group has asked Congress to investigate a sitting attorney general. Last year, 450 former federal prosecutors from Republican and Democratic administrations signed a statement chastising Barr for his handling of the Mueller report on Russian election interference.

In a letter sent this week to the majority and minority leaders of the U.S. House and Senate, the leaders of the New York City group described public statements by the attorney general as troubling for an official whose job is to enforce the law without bias.

“The duties to act impartially, to avoid even […]

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