"Mr. Barr could not be trusted." We all knew that, so what will come of this?

[dajoki]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/mueller-report-barr-judge-walton.html?

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Mr. Barr could not be trusted, Judge Reggie B. Walton said, citing “inconsistencies” between the attorney general’s statements about the report when it was secret and its actual contents that turned out to be more damaging to President Trump. Mr. Barr’s “lack of candor” called into question his “credibility and, in turn, the department’s” assurances to the court, Judge Walton said.

The judge ordered the Justice Department to privately show him the portions of the report that were censored in the publicly released version so he could independently verify the justifications for those redactions. The ruling came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking a full-text version of the report.

The differences between the report and Mr. Barr’s description of it “cause the court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller report to the contrary,” wrote Judge Walton, an appointee of President George W. Bush.

Mr. Barr’s public rollout of the Mueller report has been widely criticized. Still, it was striking to see a Republican-appointed federal judge scathingly dissect Mr. Barr’s conduct in a formal judicial ruling and declare that the sitting attorney general had so deceived the American people that he could not trust assertions made by a Justice Department under Mr. Barr’s control.

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[NewJeffCT]

1. What is the judge going to do when Barr gives him the finger

and does not turn over the unredacted report?

Hold him in Contempt and ask the DOJ to enforce the contempt?

[dajoki]

2. That's what I want to know...

Who will enforce this?

[Magoo48]

12. Recent history

Recent history says nothing will be done.

[MurrayDelph]

15. See my #14 below

He's a judge. He doesn't need someone else to enforce his contempt ruling.

[lark]

3. This is new scary territory.

drumpf and Barr will most likely absolutely ignore the subpoena and refuse to give it over, or a fake version will be given to cover up the truth and they will just hope the fake is good enough that it passes inspection? I think total obstruction is probably what will happen and it will go to SCOTUS who will back up Barr/drumpf because they are part and parcel of the Russian Repug stealing our government effort. Nothing bad about this administration will be allowed to come out by the complicit rw SCOTUS oligarchs.

[Rebl2]

6. I think

any democratic politicians they might subpoena should ignore them. If Republicans are allowed to get away with this then Democrats should not have to answer to them either.

[lark]

7. That's not the way it works now.

Under present Russian Repug SCOTUS, anything and everything drumpf does is ok, but a Democrat will go to jail for doing the same thing. Roberts calls out Schumer, but not drumpf - it's all par for the course of changing the USA to a rw nation with no effective constitution run by and for the rich and against the working class/poor.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, the process should be followed through no doubt but not going through the process of puting

... these bastards in jail allows them to wine.

[2naSalit]

4. One thing WE can do is keep this front and center in the minds

of the public.

[johnthewoodworker]

5. The republican coup is over. Barr will provide nothing.

[joost5]

9. The House has its own jail and Seargeant at Arms. Time to use 'em. nt

[spanone]

10. Let me specualte.....NOTHING WILL BE DONE.

[ScratchCat]

11. An impeachment inquiry

needs to be announced no later than Monday March 9th.

[BadGimp]

13. As to the question "what will come of this?", my guess is...

v

[MurrayDelph]

14. Isn't Judge Walton

The judge who, when he heard that ICE had preemptively deported a woman in advance of the hearing they knew was scheduled, made the department to get her and bring her back?

If Barr doesn't comply, I could easily see Judge Walton jailing Barr's feet ass for contempt.

[dajoki]

16. I would love that....

but who is going to cuff him?

[MurrayDelph]

17. He has bailiffs/Marshals

[sellitman]

18. The Judge will be put in jail

Maybe so will his whole family.

They are all Never Trumper folk. They need to made examples out of.

Nobody can rule against his Anus.