Flight of the Barr Bros
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Bill Barr talks with his chief of staff, Brian Rabbitt, before a Senate committee hearing on April 10, 2019.
The New York Times on Monday published a mea culpa by career lawyer Erica Newland, who joined the Justice Department under Obama and then served under Trump. Working in the Office of Legal Counsel, she wrote, her job was “to tailor the president’s executive actions to make them lawful in narrowing them, I could also make them less destructive.” Her portfolio “included matters targeting noncitizens, dismantling the Civil Service and camouflaging the president’s corruption.” She left in late 2018, “overcome with fear that I was doing more harm than good,” adding, “I’m haunted by what I did. The trade-off wasn’t worth it.”
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A former Justice Department attorney who worked for the Office of Legal Counsel wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in which she offered an apology for not taking a stronger stance against President Trump.
Erica Newland, who joined the DOJ under the Obama administration after serving as a clerk for D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland, said that her job was to tailor the administration’s executive actions to make them lawful, but that she eventually worried that by helping Trump s orders get court approval, she was doing more harm than good. Newland, who left in 2018, now regrets that she and others did not do more to fight against Trump when they had the chance.