Attorney General William Barr

• Barr says Trump’s tweet on cases ‘make it impossible for me to do my job’

  Barr himself has been under fire for the Justice Department action, and Thursday’s comment served as a defense of his own integrity.

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  Feb 13, 2020
  
• U.S. Attorney General William Barr to testify over Roger Stone’s lowered sentence

  Barr, who will testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month, is expected to be asked about the decision this week to overrule four federal prosecutors and lower the amount of prison time it would seek for Trump's confidant Roger Stone

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  Feb 12, 2020
  
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• Trump slams reports claiming he asked Barr to publicly clear him on Ukraine call

  A report alleges the Attorney General rebuffed the request, which came around the time the White House released a rough transcript of Trump's call at the centre of an impeachment probe.

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  Nov 7, 2019
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• Attorney General William Barr removes U.S. prisons chief after Epstein’s death

  Hugh Hurwitz's reassignment comes amid mounting evidence that guards at the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York abdicated their responsibility to keep Epstein from killing himself.

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  Aug 19, 2019
• U.S. won’t prosecute death of Eric Garner, who said ‘I can’t breathe’ while in police chokehold

  The decision to end a yearslong civil rights investigation was made by Attorney General William Barr and was announced the day before the five-year anniversary of the deadly encounter

  World

  Jul 16, 2019
• U.S. AG William Barr says he sees a way for 2020 census to legally ask about citizenship

  In an interview with the Associated Press, Barr said the Trump administration will take action in the coming days that he believes will allow the government to add the controversial census query.

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  Jul 8, 2019
• Democrats set contempt vote for William Barr over Mueller report 

  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler scheduled a Wednesday vote to hold Barr in contempt of Congress, citing the Justice Department's failure to provide the full text of Mueller's report by the Monday morning deadline.

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  May 7, 2019
• Democrats threaten to hold AG William Barr in contempt over release of Mueller report

  The House Judiciary Committee threatened to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress if he does not provide special counsel Robert Mueller’s full, unredacted report on his Russia probe by Monday.

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  May 3, 2019
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• 5 things to look for when Mueller’s Trump-Russia report is released

  Here are five things to look for when the report is issued.

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  Apr 15, 2019
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• Redacted Mueller report to be released Thursday, DOJ says

  U.S. Attorney General William Barr plans to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election on Thursday morning.

  World

  Apr 15, 2019