Flashback: Trump’s possible attorney general pick was approved unanimously to the same post in 1991

Published December 6, 2018 8:39pm ET



President Trump’s leading choice to be the next attorney general, William Barr, has one advantage over others that is likely making him even more attractive: he was already confirmed unanimously to the Senate in 1991.

Barr served as former President George H.W. Bush’s attorney general from 1991 to 1993. And in 1991, when the Senate considered Barr, it was a slam dunk.

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