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What happened after Barr decided to go public about the election?

Feb 14, 2019 · By ANNIE DANIEL and JASMINE C. LEE FEB. 14, 2019 The Senate on Thursday confirmed William P. Barr as attorney general by a vote of 54-45. Virtually every Republican, along with three Democrats,...

Why did William Barr resign as Attorney General?

Feb 14, 2019 · The Senate on Thursday confirmed William Barr as attorney general. The vote was 54-45, primarily on a party-line basis with most Republicans backing President Donald Trump’s nominee and most...

What did William Barr say about Trump’s voter fraud lies?

Feb 14, 2019 · Barr's nomination had been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 12-10 vote along party lines last week. The longtime Republican lawyer will assume oversight of Mueller's far-reaching...

What did Bill Barr say about working for Donald Trump?

Feb 14, 2019 · Earlier Thursday, the Senate voted 54-45 to confirm the veteran government official, mostly along party lines. Barr, who also served as attorney general from 1991 to 1993 during President George H.W. Bush 's administration, succeeds Jeff Sessions.

Return to the Justice Department

An old guard conservative, Barr has held many of Washington’s most influential legal perches, including a stint as the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, where he helped shape legal opinions that influenced White House policy and action.

Mueller investigation

In their rejection, many Democrats have pointed to a 19-page memo Barr wrote and sent to senior White House and Justice Department officials last year that criticized an element of the special counsel probe.

Cybersecurity

Barr will face a new landscape of challenges in his second turn at Justice, including foreign threats and cyber crimes that were not on the department’s radar, or even physical possibilities, in the early 1990s.

What is the Trump campaign alleging?

The Trump campaign team led by Giuliani has been alleging a widespread conspiracyby Democrats to dump millions of illegal votes into the system with no evidence. They have filed multiple lawsuits in battleground states alleging that partisan poll watchers didn’t have a clear enough view at polling sites in some locations and therefore something illegal must have happened. The claims have been repeatedly dismissed including by Republican judges who have ruled the suits lacked evidence.

What did Barr say about civil lawsuits?

However, Barr said earlier that people were confusing the use of the federal criminal justice system with allegations that should be made in civil lawsuits. He said a remedy for many complaints would be a top-down audit by state or local officials, not the U.S. Justice Department.

What are the issues with mail in ballots?

The issues they’ve have pointed to are typical in every election: Problems with signatures, secrecy envelopes and postal marks on mail-in ballots , as well as the potential for a small number of ballots miscast or lost.

What did the memo give prosecutors?

That memorandum gave prosecutors the ability to go around longstanding Justice Department policy that normally would prohibit such overt actions before the election was certified. Soon after it was issued, the department’s top elections crime official announced he would step aside from that position because of the memo.

Did Barr name Powell?

Barr didn’t name Powell specifically but said: “There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that.”

Did Trump comment on the Attorney General's remarks?

Trump didn’t directly comment on the attorney general’s remarks on the election. But his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his political campaign issued a scathing statement claiming that, “with all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance” of an investigation into the president’s complaints.

Did Trump say he lost the 2020 election?

He recently allowed his administration to begin the transition over to Biden, but he still refuses to admit he lost.

Why did Barr resign?

Barr resigned as attorney general in December after a bombshell interview with The Associated Press in which he publicly pushed back against Trump’s election fraud claims for the first time. Trump, Karl reported, was furious with Barr for making such a statement.

Is Barr loyal to Trump?

Barr has been viewed as deeply loyal to Trump before the election, often criticizing what he called partisan attacks on the president and defending his criminal justice record. But Trump’s efforts to overturn the election appeared to shift his allegiance.

Was Biden's win illegitimate?

There’s no evidence of any widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election, though Trump has continued to claim Biden’s win was illegitimate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday announced she would create a new committee to investigate the Capitol riot, including its origins and the federal response to it.