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Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump have messed with the wrong prosecutors. The attempt to decapitate the Southern District of New York by removing US Attorney Geoffrey Berman is nothing less than a political assault on a fiercely independent office that poses a genuine threat to powerful interests arrayed around the President.

June 22, 2020 at 04:33AM https://ift.tt/2V7SZAJ General William Barr and President Donald Trump have messed with the wrong prosecutors. The attempt to decapitate the Southern District of New York by removing US Attorney Geoffrey Berman is nothing less than a political assault on a fiercely independent office that poses a genuine threat to powerful interests arrayed around the President.