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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › William-P-BarrWilliam Barr | Facts, Biography, & Terms as Attorney General

    May 10, 2024 · On December 14, 2020, Barr announced that he would resign as attorney general, effective December 23. In One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General (2022), Barr defended his tenure in the Trump administration and criticized the president.

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_BarrWilliam Barr - Wikipedia

    William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.

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  4. www.nbcnews.com › think › opinionBill Barr was a historically bad attorney general. His ...

    Dec 15, 2020 · Attorney General William Barr announced his resignation on Monday, effective next week, shortly after the Electoral College formally confirmed that Joe Biden would be the next president. Barr’s...

  5. www.theatlantic.com › politics › archiveHow Barr Finally Turned on Trump - The Atlantic

    Jun 27, 2021 · To Trump, the unkindest cut of all was when William Barr stepped forward and declared that there had been no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, just as the president was trying to overturn...

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  7. www.npr.org › 2020/12/14 › 811276917William Barr To Step Down As Attorney General Before ... - NPR

    Dec 14, 2020 · Attorney General William Barr, an outspoken proponent of conservative values and an expansive view of presidential power, will leave office before Christmas, President Trump announced in a...

  8. www.theguardian.com › us-news › 2020William Barr: how the attorney general became Trump's enabler ...

    Feb 15, 2020 · William Barr, 69 and a veteran of 40 years in Washington, was confirmed one year ago as attorney general, a position with broad influence over the administration of justice and broad sway over...

  9. www.justice.gov › ag › bioAttorney General: William Pelham Barr - Department of Justice

    Nov 28, 2022 · Mr. Barr served as Of Counsel at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in 2009 and rejoined the firm in 2017. President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Mr. Barr on December 7, 2018, and he was confirmed as the 85th Attorney General of the United States by the U.S. Senate on February 14, 2019.