Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday called on Attorney General William Barr to step down as the country’s top law enforcement official.
The senator from Massachusetts and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate urged Barr to move aside as he appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee about special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal Russia investigation report.
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“AG Barr is a disgrace, and his alarming efforts to suppress the Mueller report show that he’s not a credible head of federal law enforcement. He should resign — and based on the actual facts in the Mueller report, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the President,” Warren tweeted.
[Related: Adam Schiff on Barr: ‘I think he should step down’]
AG Barr is a disgrace, and his alarming efforts to suppress the Mueller report show that he’s not a credible head of federal law enforcement. He should resign—and based on the actual facts in the Mueller report, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the President.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 1, 2019
Warren has previously urged House lawmakers to bring articles of impeachment against President Trump, so the Senate can then try him for possible charges emanating from Mueller’s report.
The senator is not the first 2020 Democrat to call on the attorney general to step down.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, slammed Barr last month shortly after Mueller’s report was released to the public. The House intelligence panel conducted its own inquiry into Russia interference in the 2016 election.
“You can be the President’s defense attorney or America’s Attorney General, but you can’t be both,” Swalwell said in a statement at the time. “He came to this job already biased. Today, he made a show of allegiance to the President over the American people by declaring ‘no collusion’ and excusing the President on the basis of his emotional state. He has proved that he’s an embedded Trump ally who puts this President’s political future above of the rule of law. That makes him unfit to serve. He must resign.”
