President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr. (Kevin Dietsch/Bloomberg News)Last September, President Trump told an interviewer: “I don’t have an attorney general. Well, now Trump most certainly does have the attorney general he long envisioned. But the thing is, now we don’t have an attorney general. “I don’t think it’s appropriate for the attorney general to be casting DOJ actions in terms of whether they’re good or bad for one political party," Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told us.

Source: Washington Post May 17, 2019 20:16 UTC