Amidst controversy, AG Bill Barr faces calls for his resignation

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from Donald Ayer, the former deputy attorney general under George H. W. Bush, who argued,"Bill Barr's America is not a place that anyone, including Trump voters, should want to go. It is a banana republic where all are subject to the whims of a dictatorial president and his henchmen. To prevent that, we need a public uprising demanding that Bill Barr resign immediately, or failing that, be impeached.

This is in no way routine, and it speaks to the seriousness with which Barr has jolted the American legal system with his apparent abuses.

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