Unusual Allies

U.S. Attorney General under President Trump, Bill Barr,

has been fighting a battle to keep an internal Department

of Justice memo from being made public --- and he has

gained the support of President Biden's AG Merrick

Garland. Recently the Justice Department announced that 

it would appeal federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson's order

to make available to the public an internal DOJ memo

from the Trump era dealing with the Robert Mueller report.

Most of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee

are against the appeal and have openly said so.

A March 2019 Office of Legal Counsel memo advising then-

AG Barr on how to handle the Mueller findings. Barr and his 

department refused to make the memo public because it is 

part of protected internal deliberations. In her May 3 order, 

Judge Jackson claimed that the OLC memo isn't protected 

because AG Barr had made up his mind. The DOJ already

released the first 1 1/2 pages of the memo, but have kept

the rest out of the public eye. To fail to do so would have 

meant 

During the process the DOJ has laid bare Judge Jackson's 

order for being a tool for judicial overreach and all the 

attendant mischief it was meant to do. Current AG Garland

has come out in support of keeping the internal deliberations 

private, thereby siding with his predecessor former AG Barr.

Although this will get the Democrats' knickers in a twist,

what has occurred here is just what a nonpartisan and fair-

minded Justice Department and its policy, in fact, is. 

Well done, AGs Barr and Garland. The Trump and 

Biden administrations now have some serious common 

ground.

MEM