LightDreams wrote:
Attorney General William Barr is out.

No matter how much he gave, like so many before him, "it's NEVER enough...".

Because who wouldn't leave with only four weeks to go and so many bogus lawsuits and investigations and pardons to deal with. Let Rudy do it.

Imagine how sleazy you have to be to last all four years.

Hunter  GWPB wrote:
"Report on the Department of Justice and the Rule of Law Under the Tenure of Attorney General William Barr"
Issue date: October 12, 2020
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/10 … ule-of-law

SLIGHTLY CONDENSED "GENERAL FINDINGS" from the executive summary
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General Findings:

1.Mr.  Barr  appears  to  embrace  an  autocratic  view  of  the  power  of  the  executive  branch,  specifically presidential power, and he views his own extensive authority as flowing from this nearly unbounded view of presidential power. This authoritarian worldview limits the degree to which Mr. Barr regards himself as bound by the rule of law and makes him see himself  as  entitled  to  ignore  the  laws,  ethics  and  historical  practices  that  have  helped  to  ensure that the work of the Department is in line with the values of a democratic nation.

2.[...]There  is  no  evidence that Mr. Barr seeks to constrain the operations of the DOJ in accordance with a view of law as a limiting principle on its authority.[...]

3.The Working Group came to the reluctant conclusion that Mr. Barr is using the powers of the DOJ  as  a  vehicle  for  supporting  the  political  objectives  of  President  Donald  Trump. [...]

4.The  Working  Group  identified  recent  developments  at  the  Department  of  Justice  as  an  extreme departure from the reform agenda implemented by Attorneys General Ed Levi and Griffin Bell in the 1970’s, [...]The DOJ appears to have transitioned from a  department  that  regarded  itself  as  bound  by  the  law  to  a  department  that  treats adherence to law as optional, and moreover as one that uses law for political ends. Using law as a weapon against political enemies poses a lasting threat not only to the integrity of the Department of Justice, but also a threat to the rule of law itself.

5.A consistent theme of the Working Group’s findings was that Mr. Barr could not be trusted to represent the work of the department accurately, and that there are consistent problems of  veracity  in  Mr.  Barr’s  public  statements  and  representations.[...] 

6.The Working Group found that in several different areas, the actions of the DOJ under Mr.Barr  compromised  U.S.  national  security  and  increased  risks  to  U.S.  national  interests  relative to foreign and domestic enemies. As with the Working Group’s other findings, the clear picture emerged that Mr. Barr was more interested in supporting the president’s re-election  bid  and  supporting  his  general  wishes  than  in  protecting  the  interests  of  U.S.  national security.