It’s really hard to fully capture the current stage of the presidential election. At the same time that former Vice President Joe Biden and his supporters are feeling a confidence that the prize is just around the corner, President Trump has moved on to third-grade lawyering that barely passes the …
Read More »Attorney General Barr Appoints Outside Prosecutor in Michael Flynn Case
Attorney General William Barr has ordered an outside prosecutor to review former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s case. Barr assigned U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen of St. Louis to re-examine the prosecution of Flynn. And additional outside prosecutors have been tasked to review other, yet unnamed, politically sensitive national-security cases “some …
Read More »Donald Trump and William Barr Are the Worst Buddy-Cop Duo of All Time
President Trump has found his dream attorney general in William Barr. We already knew this, considering how Barr worked last year to obscure special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings (and then some), but the bromance between the president and the head of the Justice Department, which in a functioning government would …
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