who voted to confirm barr for attorney general

by Micah Doyle 9 min read

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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.

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