Barr Confirmed as Trump’s Attorney General, Winning Power Over Mueller Probe
- The Senate confirmed William Barr as U.S. attorney general, putting him in charge of a department battered by partisan acrimony and confronting him with fundamental decisions on the future of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The confirmation vote of 54-45 on Thursday gave the 68-year-old attorney a second stint in the job as the nation’s No. 1 law enforcement officer that he previously held in the 1990s. While that will make him a major figure on issues from immigration to antitrust policy, one of the corporate ...
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