'We have repeatedly warned you and your predecessors that the misuse of our criminal justice system for political purposes is both dangerous to our democracy,' the House committee wrote in a letter to Barr.
Attorney General William Barr has accepted an invitation to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month about his alleged intervention in Roger Stone's sentencing, the removal of U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu and Rudy Giuliani feeding the Department of Justice information about President Donald Trump's political rivals.sent to Barr on Wednesday, the House committee confirmed the attorney general's"agreement to testify" on March 31, 2020.
"In your tenure as Attorney General, you have engaged in a pattern of conduct in legal matters relating to the President that raises significant concerns for this Committee," they added. U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks about the Justice Department's Russia investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign, during the Wall Street Journal's annual CEO Council meeting, at the Four Seasons Hotel on December 10, 2019 in Washington, DC.Barr has faced significant criticism from Democrats and Trump critics in the past 24 hours over the Department of Justice's handling of Stone's criminal case.
It is rare for the DOJ to overturn recommendations made by their own prosecutors, which had already been lodged with the courts. In response, all four career prosecutors involved in Stone's case—Jonathan Kravis, Aaron S.J. Zelinsky, Adam Jed and Michael Marando—requested to withdraw from the proceedings, with one resigning from the department.
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