Bill Barr

This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
We’re already seeing several themes emerging from the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr that began this morning.

It’s been a turbulent thirteen months since I interviewed Barr — both for America and for how justice is carried out in it. As I have observed his work in the Trump administration, I have come to perceive his commitment to presidential authority as relativistic and inextricably entwined with his own subjective “sense of justice.”