Don’t forget Bill Barr: He’s running the Justice Department like it’s the legal arm of the Trump Organization

AlterNet logoWhen the smoke finally clears from the impeachment morass, we’ll still have the case of the Justice Department that Attorney General William P. Barr has turned into a personal law firm to protect Donald Trump.

There have been almost daily developments showing that Barr’s Justice Department has been extending its efforts to provide both justifiable and legally questionable efforts to shield Trump, to pursue investigations into the actions of critics of the president and to interpret anything in the legal area in the president’s favor.

In short, Barr has become more Trump’s lawyer than America’s chief criminal law enforcement officer.

View the complete October 13 article by Terry Schwadron from DC Report on the AlterNet website here.