Attorney General Bill Barr Will Be Targeted By House Democrats For No Particular Reason
Expect the left to train their fire on a memorandum Barr authored and sent to the Department of Justice in 2018.
By Warren Henry
March 27, 2019
Following the release of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Robert Mueller report, deflated Democrats are trying to put the impeachment of President Trump on the back burner. Nevertheless, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) wants to put Barr on the hot seat for declaring the evidence was insufficient to establish Trump committed an obstruction-of-justice offense. Others, like Rachel Maddow, will do the same in the press.
Expect the left to train their fire on a memorandum Barr authored and sent to the Department of Justice in 2018. The memorandum has been mischaracterized by the media with headlines like “Barr authored memo last year ruling out obstruction of justice.†Barr’s critics will argue he was required to recuse himself from considering the obstruction issue for having written the memo. Neither claim holds up under scrutiny.
Barr’s memo does not claim the president cannot obstruct justice. To the contrary, Barr cites presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton as cases where the claim is justified.
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