NYC Bar Association Asks Congress to Investigate AG Barr’s Conduct, Alleges Bias

Attorney General William Barr, alongside officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announces the launch of Project Guardian, an anti-gun violence initiative, during a news conference, at the Davis-Horton Federal Building in Memphis Tenn., on Nov. 13, 2019. Mark Weber/Daily Memphian via AP

An advocacy legal group in New York has asked Congress to investigate U.S. Attorney General William Barr, alleging that his recent actions and comments “threatens public confidence in the fair and impartial administration of justice.”

The New York City Bar Association, which has over 24,000 members, said on Thursday that it had sent a letter (pdf) to Congress urging them to “to commence formal inquiries into a pattern of conduct” by the attorney general that they claim positions the Department of Justice (DOJ) as “political partisans willing to use the levers of government to empower certain groups over others.”