Wednesday, February 19, 2020

POLITICS_ McConnell, Graham and McCarthy vow efforts to 'intimidate' Barr will 'fall woefully short'

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McConnell, Graham and McCarthy vow efforts to 'intimidate' Barr will 'fall woefully short'

By Gregg Re | Fox News



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Top congressional Republicans issued a joint statement Tuesday in defense of Attorney General Bill Barr, who has faced renewed Democratic calls to step aside after he overruled line prosecutors' nine-year sentencing recommendation for former Trump aide Roger Stone.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., emphasized that Barr has the "highest character and unquestionable integrity" – and they said Democrats' efforts to "intimidate" him would fail spectacularly.

“Suggestions from outside groups that the attorney general has fallen short of the responsibilities of his office are unfounded," the Republican leaders wrote, in an apparent shot at Protect Democracy – a left-wing organization that solicited signatures from more than 1,000 ex-DOJ officials to call for Barr's resignation in the guise of a nonpartisan effort.


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"The attorney general has shown that he is committed without qualification to securing equal justice under law for all Americans," the statement continued, after noting that Barr had been confirmed by the Senate "four times to positions of the utmost public trust" in his career.

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READ MORE: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-graham-and-mccarthy-line-up-in-defense-of-barr

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"We expect that, as always, efforts to intimidate the attorney general will fall woefully short.”

— GOP leaders McConnell, McCarthy, and Graham

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