Bill Barr
Where Things Stand: Very Few Want To Be Doing This 
This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
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
This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
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.
