Thursday afternoon, Attorney General William Barr appeared on ABC to demand that President Trump quit making him look bad. Trump’s tweets, said the attorney general, “made it impossible to do my job.” Barr has been intervening in cases in ways that work to protect the president. Those interventions become much more difficult when the president demands them—rather than trusting Barr to know what to do without being told.At the law schools of the 1980s, a militant faction of professors taught a harsh lesson. Law, they argued, is a myth that property owners invoke to protect themselves and oppress those without …read more
Source:: The Atlantic
