Pardons, Presidential Power, and Worry About Bill Barr

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

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More than 25 years after serving as Attorney General under George HW Bush, Barr is set to return to the role this week. What should we expect? And what should the senators at the confirmation hearing be asking? Guest: Noah Feldman, professor of constitutional law at Harvard University and columnist at Bloomberg. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up next, it's coverage of today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination
0:11.8	of William Barr, President Bush's choice to be the nation's new attorney general.
0:16.6	Maybe the weirdest thing about today's Senate hearing for attorney general nominee William
0:20.3	Barr is that we've been here before.
0:23.3	William Barr is 41 years of age.
0:25.2	He worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals before
0:29.5	joining with President Reagan's transition team.
0:32.8	More than 25 years ago, it was President George H.W. Bush who nominated Barr to be
0:36.9	attorney general.
0:37.9	That's the head of the Department of Justice.
0:40.7	And it was Senator Ted Kennedy, Strom Thurman, and Joe Biden who were questioning him.
0:45.2	Executive privilege in your capacity at the Justice Department.
0:49.9	Have you ever refused access to information sought by Congressional Committee on the
0:55.2	grounds of executive privilege?
0:57.2	Or recommended that?
0:58.7	Well, I was at O.L.
1:01.2	Well, I was at O.L.C.
1:03.5	Behind Barr, while he testified, his wife and three daughters.
1:07.5	Side note here, one of those daughters is now a lawyer herself.
1:10.8	She's actually in charge of the DOJ's response to the opioid crisis.
1:14.7	So if this latest round of hearings goes well, her father may be about to become her boss.
1:19.9	I think there's been a little bit of hype about my position on executive privilege.
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