[Mark B]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Today it was revealed that Barr's DOJ lied to the Congress and the public about the nature of deliberations as to whether the Lying Dotard should have been prosecuted for Obstruction of Justice is association with the Mueller investigation. Here's how the plaintiff in the case described today's opinion:

Back in 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr cited a secret Department of Justice memo as key to his reasoning for not charging then-President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice at the end of the Mueller investigation.

We sued to make the memo public, and in 2021, a federal judge ruled in our favor, saying that the memo’s contents raise some serious questions, including whether Barr and the DOJ acted in bad faith in describing the memo to Congress and in court. The part of the memo that was released then made clear that the whole exercise was meant to give cover to Donald Trump, but it’s crucial to know the full content of the memo.

The DOJ appealed the decision, fighting to keep the memo secret.

And today, more than a year later, we won. The federal appeals court upheld the district judge’s decision, ruling that the DOJ waited too long to claim that the memo helped Barr decide whether to make a statement on the Mueller report, meaning that the deliberative process privilege did not apply.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court...p-obstruction/

That appeal was filed by the current DOJ led by Merrick Garland. What in justices name could be a valid reason for doing that? Afraid of another insurrection?