Bill Barr
Where Things Stand: Very Few Want To Be Doing This
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11.10.20 | 1:21 pm
And that, apparently, includes employees of the law firms representing the Trump campaign.
Around the same time that news broke that a Justice Department official — who oversaw the DOJ’s election crimes unit — resigned on Monday evening, the New York Times published a story detailing the angst within the law firms the Trump campaign has tapped to handle its various legal challenges to the election.
Where Things Stand: The Great Unmasking Dud
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10.14.20 | 12:24 pm
There’s a reason this came out through the media rather than some official DOJ press release.
DOJ Frees Federal Prosecutors To Take Steps That Could Interfere With Elections, Weakening Long-Standing Policy
In an internal announcement, the Justice Department created an exception to a decadeslong policy meant to prevent prosecutors from taking overt investigative steps that might affect the outcome of the vote.
10.07.20 | 1:22 pm