About 1,110 former Justice Department officials and former prosecutors posted a rare statement on Sunday calling on US Attorney General Bill Barr to resign following an extraordinary week of happenings at the Justice Department.
The statement posted on Sunday calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign came from former DOJ officials who had served in Republican and Democratic administrations.
The officials wrote in a statement “Mr. Barr’s actions in doing the President’s personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. Those actions, and the damage they have done to the Department of Justice’s reputation for integrity and the rule of law, require Mr. Barr to resign. But because we have little expectation he will do so, it falls to the Department’s career officials to take appropriate action to uphold their oaths of office and defend nonpartisan, apolitical justice”.