{"id":141962,"date":"2020-02-19T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/three-top-republicans-defend-barr-after-2000-former-doj-staffers-call-for-his-ouster\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:51:52","slug":"three-top-republicans-defend-barr-after-2000-former-doj-staffers-call-for-his-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/three-top-republicans-defend-barr-after-2000-former-doj-staffers-call-for-his-ouster\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Top Republicans Defend Barr After 2,000 Former DOJ Staffers Call for His Ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several top congressional Republicans defended Attorney General William Barr after hundreds of former Department of Justice officials called for his ouster in the wake of a decision to reduce the sentencing of Roger Stone.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wrote in a statement<\/a> that the call from about 2,000 former Justice Department officials for his resignation is not warranted.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuggestions from outside groups that the Attorney General has fallen short of the responsibilities of his office are unfounded. The Attorney General has shown that he is committed without qualification to securing equal justice under law for all Americans,\u201d the three lawmakers wrote. \u201cThe Attorney General has shown that he is committed without qualification to securing equal justice under law for all Americans. \u2026 The nation is fortunate that President Trump chose such a strong and selfless public servant to lead the Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats and other groups criticized Barr last week after the Justice Department revised a sentencing recommendation for Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, following a Twitter post from the president that the initial sentencing recommendation was \u201chorrible\u201d and \u201cunfair.\u201d Four prosecutors in the case then resigned from the case.<\/p>\n

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\"Epoch<\/figcaption><\/a> Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks to media after the Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment, at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 5, 2020. (Charlotte Cuthbertson\/The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n

Over the past week, the group Protect Democracy organized an effort<\/a> to gather more than 2,000 former DOJ staffers to call on Barr to resign. The group argued that Barr is using the department to politically help Trump.<\/p>\n

During an interview with ABC News last week, Barr said Trumps social media posts made it difficult for him to do his job, but he stressed the president did not influence his decision to intervene in Stones sentencing. \u201cI think its time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will make those decisions based on what I think is the right thing to do, and Im not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody,\u201d Barr told the network. \u201cAnd I said, whether its Congress, newspaper editorial boards, or the president, Im going to do what I think is right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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