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Rebuilding trust in the Justice Department starts — but doesn't end — with Biden's choice of attorney general


Rebuilding trust in the Justice Department starts but doesn t end with Biden s choice of attorney general
Crystal Hill
Before Attorney General William Barr assumed office in February 2019, a startling memorandum on Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation that Barr composed and sent, unsolicited, to the Department of Justice surfaced around the time of his nomination.
Barr, in his 2018 memo, asserted that the U.S. Constitution “places no limits on the president’s authority to act on matters which concern him or his own conduct,” revealing for some legal scholars a troubling view of the scope of presidential power, or at least of Trump’s. ....

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