'Why would Attorney General Barr stand at a press conference and act like the lawyer for the President, instead of the lawyer for the people?' RepDean, of the Judiciary Committee, shares some of her concerns ahead of AG Barr's forthcoming testimony.
In this weekly column"Cross-exam," Elie Honig, a former federal and state prosecutor and CNN legal analyst, gives his take on the latest legal news and answers questions from readers. Post your questions below. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN. Watch Honig answer reader questions on"CNN Newsroom" at 5:40 p.m. ET Sundays.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report has arrived. While the report is more than 400 pages long, it raises countless new questions -- so many, in fact, that we decided to run a special installment of"Cross-exam" to answer them. Let's dig in. Elie HonigStan, Montana: Mueller spent two years investigating. Why did we need a meaningless summary filtered by Attorney General William Barr? "Meaningless" would have been an improvement. Now that we've seen the report itself, we know that Barr's four-page summary -- which he later claimed was not actually a summary -- was misleading and manipulative. Two main things jump out about how Barr used his letter to preemptively distort perceptions of Mueller's report.
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Justice Department refuses to comply with congressional subpoena for testimony on citizenship question and 2020 CensusAttorney General William Barr instructed the department official not to testify before the House Oversight Committee, according to a letter to the panel.
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump, AG spread untruths on Mueller reportPresident Donald Trump is still distorting the truth about the Russia investigation , claiming exoneration from a special counsel's report that he is also assailing as hopelessly biased. Confronted with unflattering details in the report about his monthslong effort to undermine federal investigators
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How a legal dispute between Mueller and Barr drove the end of the special counsel’s probe“It doesn’t make any sense”: Mueller’s legal view stumps lawyers and frustrates senior Justice Department officials.
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