Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the federal judge who sentenced two of former President Donald Trump’s close allies – campaign manager Paul Manafort in 2016 and veteran GOP agent Roger Stone in 2016 – to prison terms, criticized former US Attorney General William Barr in a recent one The judgment given is extremely critical. He described his response to the Müller report as “insincere”. And legal expert Neal Katyal, who served as acting attorney general under President Barack Obama, described Jackson’s comments as extremely harmful during an appearance on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House earlier this week.
Host Nicolle Wallace, a Never Trump Conservative who served as White House communications director under President George W. Bush, told Katyal that Barr was the “conclusions” Barr came to after former Special Adviser Robert Mueller closed the Russia investigation “misrepresented” – and asked Katyal to weigh the “political damage” Barr has done to the United States. And he replied that he didn’t take pleasure in being right when it appeared on MSNBC in 2019, saying Barr was skewing the Mueller report.
Katyal, 51, told Wallace and Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, who was also a guest, “I’m not sitting here feeling good because I and so many others were right two years ago. I really wanted to be wrong. And our system is set up to trust the attorney general. I mean, Barr was the United States attorney general, not President Trump’s attorney general. So it should be – it should be for the people. Unfortunately, there was always some level of corruption around him, and he constantly acted like one of Donald Trump’s personal lawyers. “
Katyal continued, “And now, with the judge’s new decision in his deception, he’s finally being treated like one of the gangs – which he always was…. What you have in this judge’s decision yesterday – from Judge Amy Berman Jackson who is a meticulous judge – is a statement that Barr actually lied to the court and the American people. She has called Barr’s actions in the litigation position insincere, which is almost never heard of a federal judge say about a trial attorney – especially someone in the Justice Department, and especially not the United States Attorney General. “
Katyal added that if a federal judge of Jackson’s stature describes his testimony in Congress as “insincere”, it is “time to consider getting legal counsel” on.
“There is now an opportunity for a criminal investigation into Bill Barr,” Katyal told Wallace and Leonnig. “There is also the possibility of civil and disciplinary action against him.”
The Legal Expert: Bill Barr Facing Potential “Criminal Investigation” article first appeared in the New Civil Rights Movement.
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