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Nov 07, 2018 · U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R) attend a panel discussion on an opioid and drug abuse in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 29, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Conservatism portal. United States portal. v. t. e. William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the 77th and 85th United States attorney general in the administrations of Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump . From 1973 to 1977, Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Sessions -- who bonded with Trump over their populist views on trade and immigration -- became the first sitting senator to endorse Trump in February 2016 when he announced his support of the New York businessman’s then-underdog campaign. Video.
A look at the resignation from Attorney General of Jeff Sessions from the Trump Administration and the Attorney General's growing tension with President Trump, including his recusal from the Russia investigation.
Fox News' John Roberts and Chad Pergram contributed to this report. Alex Pappas is a senior politics editor at FoxNews.com.
Before he took a job at the Justice Department, Whitaker wrote an op-ed saying Mueller “is dangerously close to crossing” a “red line” in the Russia probe if he looked at Trump or his family’s finances.
In March 2017, Sessions announced his plans to recuse himself after reports surfaced detailing undisclosed conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the campaign. Sessions has said he was acting in his capacity as a Republican senator from Alabama.
Trump won Alabama. Sessions went on to become one of Trump ’s most outspoken and prominent surrogates during the campaign. A number of Sessions’ top staffers – including Rick Dearborn and Stephen Miller – took senior White House roles.
Jeff Sessions, once one of President Trump’s most loyal and trusted advisers before infuriating Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation, has resigned as attorney general at the request of the president. “At your request, I am submitting my resignation,” Sessions wrote in a Wednesday letter to Trump.
Most feasibly – and most alarmingly to his opponents – Trump may be able to appoint anyone he chooses as attorney general until January 2019 once the Senate breaks for its summer recess next month. The US president is empowered under the constitution to “fill up all vacancies” during the recess.
To the dismay of the White House, the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein – overseeing the Russia saga in lieu of Sessions – proceeded to appoint Robert Mueller, a formidable former FBI director, ...
The president in effect accused Rosenstein – a Republican who comes from Pennsylvania – of being a closet Democrat from Baltimore, where Rosenstein once served as US attorney for Maryland. Trump would no doubt like to replace Sessions with a new loyalist, such as the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
It was, moreover, politically necessary, following the explosive revelation a day earlier that Sessions had in fact met with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, during the campaign, before falsely telling senators under oath that he’d had no contact with Russian officials. Pressure on Sessions was mounting.
In part because of his loyalty during the campaign, President-elect Trump nominated Sessions to be attorney general. In a statement, Trump called Sessions a “world-class legal mind” and said he is “greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him.”
In what Trump would later view as the “original sin,” according to former chief of staff Reince Priebus, Sessions recused himself from any Justice Department investigations into Russia and the 2016 election because of his role in Trump’s campaign and scrutiny over his undisclosed meetings with the Russian ambassador. Months later, the New York Times reported that Trump had ordered White House Counsel Don McGahn to stop Sessions from recusing himself, and then “erupted in anger” when McGahn was unsuccessful, “saying he needed his attorney general to protect him.”
Trump tweeted that Sessions’ handling of surveillance abuse allegations was “DISGRACEFUL!”, angered by the fact that Sessions had asked the inspector general to review potential FISA abuse instead of ordering an investigation.
In May 1990 , Barr was appointed Deputy Attorney General, the official responsible for day-to-day management of the Department. According to media reports, Barr was generally praised for his professional management of the Department.
Comments about the Starr investigation of President Clinton. In March 1998, Barr lambasted the Clinton administration for criticizing Independent Counsel Ken Starr 's investigation of the Whitewater controversy, which had shifted towards an investigation of an alleged affair between Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
Barr supports the death penalty, arguing that it reduces crime. He advocated a Bush-backed bill that would have expanded the types of crime that could be punished by execution. In a 1991 op-ed in The New York Times, Barr argued that death row inmates' ability to challenge their sentences should be limited to avoid cases dragging on for years: "This lack of finality devastates the criminal justice system. It diminishes the deterrent effect of state criminal laws, saps state prosecutorial resources and continually reopens the wounds of victims and survivors."
During his first tenure as AG, media characterized Barr as "a staunch conservative who rarely hesitates to put his hardline views into action". He was described as affable with a dry, self-deprecating wit. The New York Times described the "central theme" of his tenure to be "his contention that violent crime can be reduced only by expanding Federal and state prisons to jail habitual violent offenders". In an effort to prioritize violent crime, Barr reassigned three hundred FBI agents from counterintelligence work to investigations of gang violence. The New York Times called this move "the largest single manpower shift in the bureau's history".
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) financially assists Republicans in their Senate election contests; in the seven years from 2009 to 2016, Barr gave six donations to the NRSC totaling $85,400. In a five-month period from October 2018 to February 2019, Barr donated five times (around $10,000 every month) for a total of $51,000. When Barr started donating more frequently to the NRSC, it was uncertain whether then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions would remain in his job. Barr continued donating even after Sessions resigned, and after Trump nominated Barr for Attorney General. The donations stopped after Barr was confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General. NRSC refunded Barr $30,000 before his confirmation. Previously in 2017, Barr had said he felt "prosecutors who make political contributions are identifying fairly strongly with a political party."
Early life and education. Barr was born in New York City in 1950. His father, Donald Barr, taught English literature at Columbia University before becoming headmaster of the Dalton School in Manhattan and later the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, both members of the Ivy Preparatory School League.
In October 1991, Barr appointed then-retired Democratic Chicago judge Nicholas Bua as special counsel in the Inslaw scandal. Bua's 1993 report found the Department of Justice guilty of no wrongdoing in the matter.
Sessions was an early supporter of Trump’s campaign and one of the first people nominated to his Cabinet.
Speculation that Sessions might be on his way out had ramped up ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, with Trump hinting that sweeping changes were coming to the DOJ.
Sessions’ departure comes at one of the most turbulent times in the modern history of the Justice Department. Trump fired both acting Attorney General Sally Yates and FBI Director James Comey last year, with the latter move sparking Rosenstein’s decision to name a special counsel. Many key roles in the Justice Department remain unfilled.