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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2020. file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks at the National Sheriffs' Association Winter Legislative and Technology Conference in Washington. Attorney General William Barr took a public swipe Thursday at President Donald Trump, saying that the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.” Barr made the comment during an interview with ABC News just days after the Justice Department overruled its own prosecutors. they had initially recommended in a court filing that President Donald Trump’s longtime ally and confidant Roger Stone be sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison. But the next day, the Justice Department took the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it would seek for Stone. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Barr swipes at Trump: Tweets make it ‘impossible’ to do job

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Attorney General William Barr waits as he is introduced to speak at the National Sheriffs' Association Winter Legislative and Technology Conference in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Attorney General Barr to testify on Roger Stone case before House Judiciary Committee next month

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General William Barr gives the keynote address to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS China Initiative Conference, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Barr’s call for U.S. control of 5G providers quickly rebuked

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Department of Justice shows Timothy Shea, currently senior counselor to Attorney General William Barr. Barr on Jan. 30, 2020, nominated Shea, one of his closest advisers, to be the next top prosecutor in the nation’s capital, the largest United States attorney’s office in the country, which has been historically responsible for some of the most significant and politically sensitive cases the Justice Department brings in the U.S. (Department of Justice via AP)

AP Exclusive: Barr names new U.S. attorney in DC

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

U.S. Attorney General William Barr delivers remarks to announce the establishment of the Presidents Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, at an event at the Department of Justice Headquarters, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Michael A. McCoy)

AG Barr: religious freedom essential to maintaining limited government

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Senators: US has released some Vegas shooting survivor funds

Associated Press

In this Jan. 13, 2020, photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks to reporters at the Justice Department in Washington to announce the results of an investigation of the shootings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Justice Department to unveil National Law Enforcement Commission

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Giuliani associate in campaign cash probe seeks Barr recusal

Associated Press

In this Dec. 2, 2019, file photo, Lev Parnas arrives at court in New York. Parnas, a close associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has provided a trove of text messages and photos to the House committee leading the impeachment inquiry. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) ** FILE **

Lev Parnas, anti-Trump witness, promoted by Adam Schiff despite denials, lawsuit

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2020, file photo Attorney General William Barr and FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich, second from left, address reporters at the Justice Department in Washington to announce results of an investigation of the shootings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. An an image of an iPhone is displayed at left. The Justice Department has placed a high national-security priority on its probe of the incident, insisting that investigators must get access to data from two locked and encrypted iPhones that belonged to the alleged gunman, a Saudi aviation student. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AP Explains: The Justice Department’s new quarrel with Apple

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

William Barr 2019 Award Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Attorney General William Barr, ‘Adult of the Year’

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

In this April 3, 2019, file photo, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Eric Holder, a partisan hack who dares rail at William Barr

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rubio seeks inquiry into federal prison abuse allegations

By Associated Press - Associated Press

DOJ Pride, a group representing the Justice Department's LGBTQ workers, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr saying the administration's stance on protections for LGBTQ workers has harmed morale. (Associated Press)

DOJ Pride says Justice Department’s stance on LGBTQ protections harming employee morale

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Lawyers say federal death row prisoner has Alzheimer’s

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Attorney General William Barr, left, and President Donald Trump turn to leave after speaking about the 2020 census in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Conservative lawyers rap William Barr’s Federalist Society speech on presidential power

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

William Barr: ICE can defy courtroom sanctuary policies in the states

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 11, 2019 file photo, a view of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

AP Exclusive: DOJ would take halted executions to high court

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

American Crown Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The dangers of a Trump imperial presidency

By Andrew P. Napolitano

In this file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Attorney General William Barr before Trump signed an executive order creating a commission to study law enforcement and justice at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Convention Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in Chicago. In a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington on Nov. 15, Mr. Barr blasted progressives for waging an ongoing campaign to thwart the Trump presidency from functioning, saying self-styled "resistance" progressives "see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple, by any means necessary, a duly elected government." (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Attorney General Barr indicts progressives’ anti-Trump ‘resistance’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times