The Attorney General, it is presumed, represents the people of the United States, not the President of the United States. Yet the latter is how Attorney General William Barr will be remembered. As the House of Representatives investigates a whistleblower complaint alleging that President Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, urging him to work with Barr and Rudy Giuliani as his “personal envoys,” Barr stands to lose what’s left of the respectable, protective sheen of his office. His association with his boss’s highly dubious activities, along with Giuliani’s brand of potentially criminal lawyering, may at …read more
Source:: The New Republic
