The problem here is that virtually everyone, probably including the president, knows that there's no evidence of any emergency, says Marty Lederman, attorney in Justice Department and visiting associate professor at Georgetown University. ..…
Kinkopf, who testified at Barr’s confirmation hearing, predicts that, “Barr will take the position that any discussion or release of the Mueller report — relating to the president, who again cannot be indicted — would be improper and prohibited by [Department of Justice]..…
Specifically, this is the view that while Justice Department is under the President, the Department and Attorney General are also independent of White House in the sense that they are required to follow the law and required to remain degree of independence from politics that other..…
In fact, President Trump has recently called for more use of the death penalty to punish drug trafficking: . “My department of Justice will be seeking much tougher penalties for the big pushers, and that penalty is going to be the death penalty.” . . ..…
And Graham voted to impeach President Bill Clinton for lies in judicial proceedings and, more recently, referred Christopher Steele to Justice Department for alleged lies to FBI.. ..…
Barr, who was previously attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, left little doubt about his views in an unsolicited memo that he addressed to the Justice Department last year. ..…
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