The Senate confirms Bill Barr as attorney general
The Senate confirms Bill Barr as attorney general
There are still outstanding questions about how much of the Mueller report he’s actually willing to share.
By Li Zhou and Jen Kirby at Vox
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/14/18217009/bill-barr-attorney-general-mueller
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The Senate just confirmed William Barr to be President Trump’s new attorney general, a vote that garnered some Democratic support in spite of broader party opposition and ongoing questions regarding his oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference.
Republicans broadly voted in favor of Barr. They were joined by Democrats Doug Jones (AL), Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), all of whom are from states where Trump remains popular.
This is Barr’s second turn as attorney general; he also served during the George H.W. Bush administration, and will again have jurisdiction over a wide-ranging set of issues from immigration enforcement to criminal justice reform to the Mueller investigation. The last of these has been one of the chief sticking points of his confirmation — especially because he has not committed to disclosing the Mueller report in full once it has been completed.
“The defining question for me was his declining to commit to release the Special Counsel’s report fully and completely,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said in a statement. “He chose not to make the commitment that he would release that report completely and directly to Congress and the American people.”
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