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In her scathing opinion, Judge Amy Berman Jackson suggests that former Attorney General Barr did not think twice about letting Trump off the hook, that it was a foregone conclusion: The fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given, she writes. Congresswoman Val Demings says, If it was you, or me, or your ordinary John or Mary, they would be prosecuted. May 5, 2021
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A federal judge ordered the release of an Office of Legal Counsel memo supporting former Attorney General William Barr’s decision not to pursue obstruction of justice against former President Donald Trump following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson released a 41-page opinion on Monday rejecting arguments from the Trump DOJ that the advisory memo from March 2019 had been part of the deliberative process and subject to attorney-client privilege and thus not subject to public release following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Instead, the Obama appointee who handed down longtime Trump associate Roger Stone’s 40-month sentence last year after overseeing the GOP operative’s jury conviction in November 2019, critiqued Barr’s handling of the Mueller report and ordered the OLC document to be released, giving the Biden DOJ until May 17 to decide if it wa
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May 04, 2021
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District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson criticized former Attorney General William Barr and the Department of Justice in a ruling ordering the release of a memo related to the Mueller report.
Berman Jackson wrote in her partially-redacted ruling that the federal government must release a memo analyzing whether or not the Justice Department should have charged former President Donald Trump with a crime in connection with the Mueller probe. In doing so, she claimed that Barr was “disingenuous” in his characterization of the Mueller report’s findings.
“Not only was the Attorney General being disingenuous then, but DOJ has been disingenuous to this Court.”
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A Republican congressman is predicting that the release of an internal memo credited by former Attorney General Bill Barr for his decision not to charge former President Trump with obstruction of justice will validate Barr s decision.
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told Fox News on Wednesday that he believes the Department of Justice (DOJ) memo from March 2019 will validate Barr’s decision to clear Trump from obstruction of justice charges after after a federal judge ordered the memo to be turned over.
She ordered the document’s release, calling the agency’s claims “not worthy of credence” in the latest court review of the then-attorney general’s actions in the Mueller probe.