I mean, I'm the attorney general. [249] The origins of the probe were already being investigated by the Justice Department's inspector general and by U.S. attorney John Huber, who was appointed in 2018 by Jeff Sessions. In so doing, he overruled the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which advocated charging Pantaleo, instead agreeing with Justice Department prosecutors from New York. [99][97] The day after the existence of the memo became known, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said "our decisions are informed by our knowledge of the actual facts of the case, which Mr. Barr didn't have. Barr had taken an interest in solving that case, both during and between his tenures as attorney general. [121] On August 10, 2019, Epstein was found unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). 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And the ballots are a disaster. William Barr, U.S. attorney general, attends a meeting with members of the St. Louis Police Department in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Jackson rejected this argument after reviewing the unredacted memo, stating that Barr could not have made the decision on the memo's advice, because the unredacted memo showed that the decision had already been made not to charge Trump. There 'was no evidence not even remotely indicating Obama or Biden did anything wrong,' as one person put it. [246] At the time, Barr said he would not launch an investigation into the origins of the FBI probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. As deputy attorney general, Barr authorized an FBI operation in 1991 which freed hostages at the Talladega federal prison. [105][106][107], Barr was confirmed as attorney general on February 14, 2019, by a 5445 near party-line vote, with Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) as the three Democrats to vote Yea. [24][25], In 1989, at the beginning of his administration, President George H. W. Bush appointed Barr to the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), an office which functions as the legal advisor for the President and executive agencies. 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He has Irish ancestors. Barr's older brother Stephen, now a physicist, heads the Society of Catholic Scientists. [11] Barr is the second person to ever serve two non-consecutive terms as U.S. Attorney General, with John J. Crittenden being the first. [284] As summer ended there were reports that Barr was pressing for the Durham investigation to release its report. [314], In June 2019, in violation of Department of Justice policy, Barr pressured Berman, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to drop an investigation into close allies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan involved with the Turkish bank Halkbank. Later today, William Barr is expected to be confirmed as Donald Trump's next attorney general, despite just three Democrats voting to advance his nomination . In addition, according to Jackson, the unredacted memo indicated that Barr did not have legitimate authority to make a prosecution decision regarding Trump. [242][241][243][244][245] There is no evidence that government officials engaged in "spying" on the Trump campaign. DiGenova and Toensing obtained a September 2019 statement[124] from Shokin that made false assertions about corruption by Biden. Illustrated. [207] In USA Today it was described that Mueller "expressed his differences with Barr". [335], During a June 2020 House Judiciary Committee testimony, Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general for whom Barr worked during the George H. W. Bush presidency, asserted that Barr "poses the greatest threat, in my lifetime, to our rule of law and to public trust in it". While her father William Bar has an estimated net worth of $50 million as per Celebrity Net Worth, Mary Daly Barr also makes a substantial income as a senior advisor in the Department of Treasury. [111], In May 2019, three months into his tenure as attorney general, the Associated Press characterized Barr as a champion and advocate for Trump. Because of this and Barr's unwillingness to appoint an independent counsel to look into a second scandal known as Iraqgate, New York Times writer William Safire began to refer to Barr as "Coverup-General Barr". [371], In 1992, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) by George Washington University. [338], A lifelong Republican, Barr takes an expansive view of executive powers and supports "law and order" policies. Mary Daly also serves as senior advisor to the director of the Treasury Department and she is married to a man called Michael . [230], During May 1, 2019, testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barr stated he accepted Mueller's interpretation of the law that was applied in the Report. "[47][48], In 1992, Barr authored a report, The Case for More Incarceration,[49] which argued for an increase in the United States incarceration rate, the creation of a national program to construct more prisons, and the abolition of parole release. "[212][213] On April 10, Attorney General Barr appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Genealogy profile for Mary Barr. Barr replied: "I don't know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion. [37] However, Barr said during his 1991 confirmation hearings that Roe was "the law of the land" and that he did not have "fixed or settled views" on the subject. [16] During his law school years he was an analyst in the Intelligence Directorate division from 1973 to 1975, and then transitioning to an assistant in the Office of Legislative Counsel and an agency liaison to Congress from 1975 to 1977. The Rev . Barr served from 2014 to 2017 on the board of the Catholic Information Center (CIC) of the Archdiocese of Washington, an Opus Dei center and nexus of politically connected Catholics on K Street. It did not reflect the views of the department. ", "William Barr, a Catholic, went out of his way to use the death penalty (and defy church teaching)", "William Barr, nation's top lawyer, is a culture warrior Catholic", "New Trump-Russia subplot: Mueller and Barr are 'good friends', https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Barr&oldid=1138260242. The DOJ withdrew the subpoena one week after Twitter challenged it to Howell, who oversees federal grand juries, in March 2021. [169][170][171][172][173], On September 3, 2020, Trump ordered Barr to identify "anarchist jurisdictions", stating in a memorandum, "It is imperative that the federal government review the use of federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and destruction in America's cities. Barr clarified on the intention of his letter both in his phone call with Mueller and in another letter to Congress that his letter had not been intended to be a summary of the report, but rather a description of the principal findings of the report. Trainor was raised by Bill Trainor, a retired Navy fighter pilot and public defender, and Madelyn Trainor, a retired high school calculus teacher, in San Diego, California. Barr continued donating even after Sessions resigned, and after Trump nominated Barr for Attorney General. On March 25, the department updated its position to argue that the entire law was unconstitutional. "[232][233], In March 2020, Reggie Walton, a federal district judge originally appointed by President George W. Bush, criticized Barr's characterizations of the Mueller report as "distorted" and "misleading". 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