William Barr to face Senate confirmation vote for attorney general
Source: CNN
By David Shortell, CNN
Updated 9:04 AM ET, Thu February 14, 2019
(CNN)The Senate will vote Thursday on whether to send President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, William Barr, back to the Department of Justice, marking his second tour atop an agency facing down a set of threats unimaginable in his first go-around.
More than 25 years after his unanimous confirmation as attorney general, then under President George H. W. Bush, Barr faces a more polarized Senate and a vote expected to affirm him along mostly party lines.
Barr's nomination last year by Trump marked an unusual return to politics for the 68-year-old, who left the Justice Department in 1993.
An old guard conservative, Barr has held many of Washington's most influential legal perches, including a stint as the head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, where he helped shape legal opinions that influenced White House policy and action, before becoming Bush's deputy attorney general and attorney general.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/william-barr-senate-confirmation-vote/index.html
His sense of patriotism....................really lets ask what he did about the convicted in the Iran-Contra Deal...........................he went and told the president at that time to "pardon" them....................it was just fine and dandy to break the law, and it was just fine and dandy to have those weapons murder innocent lives in the El Salvador..........................amazing, and then he waffles on the justice department report, the tax payer funded report into the criminal enterprise in the current white house...................
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