According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Senate Judiciary Committee has blocked Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) attempt to give Attorney General William Barr more power. Graham is the chairman of the committee that blocked him.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee blocked an effort by Chairman Lindsey Graham to give the attorney general the power to veto investigations of Justice Department lawyers by the inspector general,” Bloomberg reports. “The committee instead backed — over the objections of Graham and Attorney General William Barr — a bipartisan bill by Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah that would empower the department’s inspector general to investigate such allegations on his own authority.”
Former Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) had a few words to say about Barr’s position.
“I don’t care what the attorney general says on this IG thing,” Grassley said. “We designed IGs to be very independent.”
You can read the full report HERE.
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