Somethings already coming out or should come out tat would disqualify hime.
Former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne told MSNBC on Tuesday that she was concerned that attorney general nominee Bill Barr wasn’t asked whether he was sorry for supporting the Iran-Contra pardons, saying that his response could help clarify his stance on a president pardoning himself or family members for illegal acts.
“I’m concerned that he’s backing away from the amount of information and the transparency he’s going to have on the Mueller report and what he’s going to give people,” Alksne said, adding that Barr’s comments and attitude had “migrated” throughout the hearing.
“I’m interested that we haven’t talked as much about pardons,” she added. “Nobody’s asked him yet, ‘what about those Iran-Contra pardons? Are you sorry those went through?'”
“Nobody has asked him if the president can pardon himself and what is his legal opinion about that,” Alksne continued. “Nobody’s asked him about what would happen if the president pardoned family members in order to shut down investigations.”
As attorney general during the Iran-Contra investigation, Barr backed President George H.W. Bush’s decision to pardon the Reagan administration officials caught up in the scheme before they could stand trial. Barr boasted later that he had “favored the broadest pardon authority”, which was strongly criticized by independent prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who led the investigation.
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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Tuesday grilled attorney general nominee William Barr over his apparent support for a Mexican border wall — and got him to admit that he doesn’t know as much as he thought about the situation at the border.
“You mentioned that we need barriers across the board to deal with drug trafficking,” Harris noted. “Are you advocating a wall?”
Barr responded by saying that he is “advocating a system, a barrier system in some places” before admitting that he would need to “find out more about the situation since I last visited the border.”
The California Democrat pointed out that most drugs that enter the US through Mexico do so at legal ports of entry — and then asked him when the last time he’d visited such a port was.
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Senators probed Barr’s legal history and tried to establish whether he’d maintain proper independence from the Trump administration.
In the afternoon, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) pressed Barr on his problematic attitudes and writings about criminal justice and race.
“You literally wrote the book on mass incarceration or at least this report, The Case for Mass Incarceration,” Booker said, as well as interrogating him on his positions on the Cole memo and marijuana legalization.
Citing gang violence in cities like Chicago, Barr defended tough-on-crime policies.
Booker then berated the nominee for claiming that blacks and whites get fair and equal treatment in the US criminal justice system.
Barr acknowledged that while he admits there are pockets of racism, overall race does not effect sentencing outcome.
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The acting attorney general received more than $1.2 million in salary from a conservative nonprofit that does not reveal its donors, and Whitehouse asked nominee William Barr whether he would investigate the payments.
“In my letter to you I expressed my concern that Mr. Whitaker was paid $1.2 million through what I consider to be a front group that has very little reality to it,” Whitehouse said, “and that the funding that came to that front group to pay him, the million dollars came through another entity that is essentially an identity-laundering operation that has no independent business operation.”
Whitehouse said the payment’s mysterious origins made it impossible to comply with ethics regulations.
“The result of all of this is that somebody out there arranged to get over a million dollars to Mr. Whitaker,” the senator said, “and we have no idea who that somebody is, and as I mentioned to you in our conversation, I don’t see how we do a proper recusal and conflict analysis for somebody when the player who delivered the million dollars is still hidden behind the curtain. Is that something that you will help us fix?”
Barr said that he did not believe Whitaker had done anything wrong, and Whitehouse cautioned the nominee that there weren’t enough facts in evidence to make that determination.
“You know, I think that that raises a very interesting point that I think I would like to review with the ethics people and experts in even (the Office of Government Ethics) to talk about that,” Barr said, “because the more I thought about that, the more I thought that the trick is going to be deciding what kind of entities and how far back you go, because that can be said of a lot of different kinds of entities.”
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William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday suggested that journalists could be put in jail if they “hurt the country” with their reporting.
At a Senate confirmation hearing, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asked for the nominee’s view on protections for a free press.
“I want to ask you something that I asked Attorney General [Jeff Sessions],” Klobuchar said. “If you’re confirmed, will the Justice Department jail reporters for doing their jobs?”
“I can conceive of situations where as a last resort and a news organization has run through a red flag or something like that, knows that they’re putting out stuff that will hurt the country,” Barr said, “there might be a situation where someone would be held in contempt.”
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In an exchange on Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Bill Barr, admitted to California’s Dianne Feinstein that he didn’t understand the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The clause is meant to protect the United States system of government from “corrupting foreign influences” by restricting government officials from receiving “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” Many Democrats and legal scholars believe the president has frequently violated the Emoluments Clause.
Barr said the president had a right to intervene in investigations as long as he had no personal stake.
“An easy, bad example would be if a member of the president’s family or a business associate or something was under investigation and he tries to intervene,” Barr said. “That would be a breach of his obligation under the Constitution to faithfully execute the laws.”
“Including the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution?” interjected Feinstein. Barr began stammering after a brief pause.
“Well, I think there’s a dispute as to what the Emoluments Clause relates to,” he replied as he fiddled nervously with his tie. “I have not personally researched Emoluments Clause. I can’t tell you what it says at this point.”
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And on and on and so forth. this guy has no business being the AG. But don't fret the Turdle will bow down kiss Orange Stains Ass and push this trough the Reptilian Senate.