I admire Rosenstein's Heroic** Strength in doing what he did. He is right up there with the finest Republicans along with Sec. Defense Jim Mattis.
Though William Barr was an Attorney General before and to general acclaim, has subsequently published a 25-page document that includes opposition to the special counsel. I presume Democrats will work him over for that.
During the Bush years, Mr. Barr maintained that his allegiance didn’t rest with the president who appointed him but rather with the rule of law.
That was then. If confirmed as the 85th attorney general of the United States, he will be serving a chief executive who thinks he is the law — and who has made clear that he thinks the attorney general ought to function more like his lawyer than the public’s***
* https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rosenstein-barr-sessions-justice/2019/01/09/id/897433/?
** http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-hero.html
*** https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/opinion/william-barr-attorney-general-trump.html
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