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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths as of each morning this week
: Monday, 577,045; Tuesday, 577,523; Wednesday, 578,500; Thursday, 579,276.
Former
President Trump received what he said was unwelcome news from Big Tech on Wednesday as
Facebook’s oversight board upheld his suspension from the social media platform, which the company imposed following his persistent falsehoods about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Former Attorney General William Barr leaned heavily on the memo in declining to charge Trump with a crime, but Barr never released the document publicly.
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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
Judge orders Justice Department to release Trump obstruction memo Published 4 hours ago
FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. A federal judge has ordered the release of a legal memorandum the Trump-era Justice Department prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr before he announced his conclusion that President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice during the Russia investigation. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)
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Print article WASHINGTON A federal judge has ordered the release of a legal memorandum the Trump-era Justice Department prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr before he announced his conclusion that President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice during the Russia investigation.
A judge has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over an internal memo from March 2019 that then-Attorney General Bill Barr cited as his reason not to charge former President Trump with obstruction of justice following the Mueller investigation.