The US Senate on Thursday afternoon confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee, William Barr, to be the next Attorney General of the United States
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th February, 2019) The US Senate on Thursday afternoon confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee, William Barr, to be the next Attorney General of the United States.The Senate voted 54-45, largely along party lines, to confirm Barr as head the US Justice Department.
The vote came more than three months after Trump asked former US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign from his position. Barr would replace acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who was tapped to serve once Sessions departed.
Barr overcame Democrats' concerns about how he would manage Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into allegations of Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 US presidential election.
Barr had written a 19-page legal memorandum earlier in which he characterized Mueller's probe as "fatally flawed."
Trump has called Mueller's probe a political witch hunt that has not produced evidence in two years.
Russia has repeatedly refuted claims of interference in the US political system, saying the allegations were made up to excuse the election loss of Trump's opponent as well as deflect public attention from actual instances of election fraud and corruption.
Barr previously served as US Attorney General from 1991-93 in the administration of then President George H.W. Bush.
