Barr and President Trump step off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews after Trump’s visit to Kenosha, Wis., in September. The first of Barr’s supposed sins, Luttig says, is the most elemental and insurmountable: “He is President Trump’s attorney general.”Barr in September. Bush’s 1988 campaign to the post of attorney general — an astonishing rise for a lawyer a decade-and-a-half out of law school. Still, there were moments in his first tenure as attorney general when Barr showed the restraint that so many hoped he’d demonstrate as Trump’s attorney general. Gay and lesbian organizations expressed concern when Barr was nominated to be Trump’s attorney general, citing his past comments.

Source: Washington Post September 15, 2020 14:15 UTC