The candidate of choice of the US President, Trump will be the new Minister of justice. The Senate confirmed the appointment of the lawyer Barr. This assumes the supervision of the investigations against trump’s campaign team.

The future U.S. Minister of justice. The U.S. Senate voted 54 to 45 votes for the President, Donald Trump proposed William Barr. The majority came about through the support of the Republicans. The 68-year-old Barr follows in the footsteps of Jeff Sessions, who had resigned in the autumn of of pressure Trumps.

dealing with the results of the special investigator Mueller is an important task for the new US Minister of justice.

Barr was already from 1991 to 1993, the US Minister of justice. His responsibilities include the oversight of the work of the special investigator Robert Mueller in the coming months. This examined whether Trump and his campaign team were involved in the Russian influence on the election campaign of 2016. Trump rejects this and always speaks again of a “witch-hunt”. He had criticized Barr’s previous Sessions again and again, because this held on the grounds of possible bias on the part of the Russian investigations.

Democrats have a majority against Barr

The Democrats in the Senate voted largely against Barr, because this has left open whether he will publish Mueller’s report. Barr had promised to want to be as transparent as possible approach. At the same time, he will accept the rules of the judicial authority seriously, after which Mueller’s report as confidential should be handled.

After the swearing-in this week, Barr will take over a Ministry, the state in the past two years, particularly under pressure. Trump had criticized Ex-Minister of the Sessions and its employees again and again, likewise, Sessions’ Deputy, Rod Rosenstein, Mueller and his Team. It is expected that Rosenstein is leaving the authority shortly after Barr’s Takeover.

William Barr – tend not to amenable Trump candidate, 16.01.2019 U.S. Department of justice, Minister of Sessions withdraw a sufficient 07.11.2018 Atlas |USA |Washington D. C.

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