Dershowitz: ‘No legal basis’ requiring Barr to release Mueller report

Published April 2, 2019 1:24am ET



There is no “legal basis” for Attorney General William Barr to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report, according to Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz.

“I think, even if Barr were hypothetically to refuse to issue anything, there would be no legal basis for a court to compel him to do that,” Dershowitz said during an interview with Fox News on Monday.

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