Trump announced today that he plans to nominate former attorney general William Barr to be his next attorney general — the news comes exactly one month after Jeff Sessions was forced out buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
On a related note: The Justice Department Still Hasn't Told The Federal Accountability Office That Jeff Sessions Quit
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From the NY Times in 1991: "William P. Barr ... is a bagpipe-player, China scholar and one-time employee at the Central Intelligence Agency who got his law degree in night school and has never prosecuted a criminal case in court." buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… 
Just last month, William Barr co-authored an op-ed praising Jeff Sessions, suggesting he'll carry on Sessions's legacy on everything from immigration and criminal prosecutions to religious liberties and campus speech issues buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
If Barr is confirmed and takes over responsibility for the Russia probe, it wouldn't be his first time supervising special counsel Robert Mueller — Mueller ran the Criminal Division at DOJ when Barr was attorney general in the early 1990s buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Acting AG Whitaker has high praise for Trump's decision to nominate Bill Barr as the next attorney general buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
In case you're curious: Here is a transcript of Bill Barr's 1991 confirmation hearing, his Senate questionnaire, and written responses to questions from senators assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5453…
The Federalist Society makes an appearance in the 1991 Barr docs — he doesn't list it under memberships, but included two symposia in the publications/speeches section. This was in the early-ish years of Fed Soc's existence (it was founded in 1982) assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5453…
