1,100 Former DOJ Lawyers Call on Barr to Resign for Interference in Stone Sentencing

Posted on AllSides February 17th, 2020
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Justice Department, resignation, former DOJ staffers, Roger Stone, equal justice

More than 1,100 former prosecutors and officials at the Department of Justice called on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign Sunday after he intervened in the case of Roger Stone to reduce the recommended sentence of President Trump’s longtime friend and quasi-adviser. The former DOJ employees expressed outrage in an open letter at Barr’s intervention after Trump tweeted his disapproval of the nine-year sentence recommended by prosecutors in the case where Stone had been convicted of seven felonies. “Mr. Barr’s actions in doing the President’s personal bidding… and the damage...

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