Attorney General Barr defends Trump, assails 'Resistance' in fiery speech to conservative lawyers:
Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday delivered one of his most effusive defenses to date of his expansive views on executive power, in a speech where he accused Democrats who've sought to thwart President Donald Trump's agenda of"using every tool and maneuver to sabotage" the administration.
Barr went into detail as he assailed the self-described"Resistance" to Trump, accusing them of adopting"dangerous" and"incendiary" language by implying the sitting government is illegitimate. The remarks came just hours after prosecutors from Barr's Justice Department secured yet another conviction of one of the president's past informal campaign advisers, Roger Stone, on seven criminal counts that included lying to congressional investigators who were probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Barr earned cheers from the crowd as he repeatedly excoriated, and at times mocked, critics of the"unitary executive" theory, embraced by Barr and others in conservative legal circles who argue for fewer restraints to a president's exercise of his executive power.
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