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Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
Attorney General William Barr will leave office Wednesday the same way he came in as a class act. He carried out his role as the consummate professional who followed the law, administered justice, and forged ahead despite relentlessly unfair and unjustified criticism leveled at him.
Barr offered a refreshing contrast to President Barack Obama’s former attorney general, Eric Holder, who characterized himself as Obama’s wingman. Barr understands that his first loyalty is to the Constitution and the rule of law, not the president. He knows that the attorney general must be an objective, apolitical enforcer of our nation’s laws.
Rep. Warren Davidson: Ohio Republican who replaced John Boehner takes increasingly pro-Trump, anti-DeWine path Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer We re two different people, Boehner, a West Chester Republican, said about Warren Davidson. The former congressman who represented Butler County for 24 years spoke to The Enquirer by phone from his Florida home where he now spends his winters.
How s Davidson different? I ll let someone else answer that.
Davidson, a former Army Ranger and businessman from Troy, has cultivated a reputation far more conservative than Boehner.
But up until this year, Davidson, 50, has lived in the shadow of his more noisy congressional neighbor Rep. Jim Jordan, who was one of the first to endorse Davidson in his run for Boehner s seat when the former speaker retired in 2015.
Fox News contributor discusses how outgoing attorney general handled political pressure from Trump, Democrats.
Attorney General William Barr will leave office Wednesday the same way he came in as a class act. He carried out his role as the consummate professional who followed the law, administered justice, and forged ahead despite relentlessly unfair and unjustified criticism leveled at him.
Barr offered a refreshing contrast to President Barack Obama’s former attorney general, Eric Holder, who characterized himself as Obama’s wingman. Barr understands that his first loyalty is to the Constitution and the rule of law, not the president. He knows that the attorney general must be an objective, apolitical enforcer of our nation’s laws.
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Tribune News Service) A
Jacksonville Navy officer’s wife who worked for a Chinese business executive was ordered released from jail after being sentenced Wednesday for trying to smuggle American-made “raiding” boats and engines to
China.
Yang Yang, 35, received the time-served sentence 14 months after she and her husband, Lt.
Fan Yang, and two others were locked up on charges that prosecutors said they would prove with information gathered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
U.S. Senior Judge
Harvey Schlesinger ordered Yang to also serve two years of supervised release, a way of monitoring defendants to be sure they stay out of trouble.