Sep 30, 2020 · Judge Reggie Walton said the U.S. Department of Justice had "failed to satisfy its burden" with claims that parts of the Mueller report were privileged information.
May 26, 2021 · Elie Honig writes that Attorney General Merrick Garland is wrong to appeal portions of a federal judge's ruling ordering the release of a redacted Justice Department memo on the Mueller ...
Mar 25, 2019 · Politics abhors a vacuum and Attorney General Bill Barr filled it Sunday when he tried to exonerate Donald Trump using the “Mueller …
Feb 21, 2022 · A Trump judge just put the Voting Rights Act on life support The Supreme Court will probably agree with a ruling that only the attorney general can sue under the VRA. Will AG Garland protect ...
Just two days after he received Mueller's 448-page report, Barr wrote a four-page summary letter that wildly mischaracterized the report. Load Error. In the letter -- which stated that Mueller's investigation did not establish conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia -- Barr declared Trump free and clear on obstruction of justice, ...
The decision of the new attorney general, Merrick Garland, to appeal portions of Judge Jackson's ruling is a mistake, and marks a missed opportunity to break cleanly from the fundamental dishonesty that defined Barr's term in office.
And Judge Reggie Walton -- nominated to the federal bench by Republican President George W. Bush in 2001 -- also lambasted Barr for his dishonesty. In a March 2020 ruling, in a lawsuit brought by a public interest group seeking access to redacted portions of the Mueller report, Walton called out Barr's "lack of candor," which "call (s) ...
In Monday's ruling, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the unreleased OLC memo that Barr used to clear Trump of obstruction contradicted his claim that the decision to charge the president was under his purview because the special counsel Robert Mueller "did not resolve the question of whether the evidence would support a prosecution.".
Jackson pointed out that Mueller himself criticized Barr's handling of the public release of the report and his description of the special counsel's conclusions. On April 18, 2019, Barr "appeared before Congress to deliver the report," Jackson wrote.
A federal judge ordered the DOJ to release a memo that Bill Barr used to clear Trump of obstruction of justice, saying 'it is time for the public to see' it.