Statement Calling for the Impeachment of Attorney General Barr
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We, the undersigned lawyers, mindful of our professional, ethical and moral obligations to uphold the rule of law declare the following:
That AG Barr’s attempt to fire the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and replace him with a non-Senate confirmed acting U.S. attorney raises serious questions about his and the President’s motivation and their corruption of the process of appointment;
That AG Barr’s conduct in this case and in a series of prior events, most recently the order to use paramilitary forces on peaceful protestors, and the use of the Justice Department to quash publication of a book by Ambassador Bolton show a disdain for the rule of law;
That AG Barr has the support of the President and will not resign from his post;
Therefore we call on the House of Representatives to immediately start impeachment proceedings against AG Barr, consistent with their responsibilities for oversight and protection against abuse of power by the executive branch.
Time is of the essence.
Signed:
| Rosina Abramson – Former NYC and State official |
| John Achatz – Access to Justice Fellow, De Novo |
| Dan Alterman – Founder of civil rights law firm |
| Steven Andrews – Former Special Assistant to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Paula Atkinson – Attorney |
| Kurt Autor – N/A |
| Natasha Axelrod – Attorney |
| Kimberly Baker Medina – Private practice, immigration attorney |
| Stanley Balis – N/A |
| Alan Baron – Former Assistant United States Attorney |
| Dianne Baron – N/A |
| Charles Baron – Emeritus Professor Boston College Law School |
| Jeffrey Bartell – Retired Partner, Quarles & Brady |
| Christopher Batinsey – N/A |
| Lynn Bechtol – Attorney |
| Marilyn Bernhardt – Attorney |
| Eric Blumenson – Professor of Law Emeritus |
| Bruce Bookman – Retired |
| Darren Bouwmeester – N/A |
| Judith Bowman – N/A |
| Andrew Boyle – N/A |
| Israela Brill-Cass – Ombudsperson, Wesleyan University |
| Mark Brodin – Professor, Boston College Law School |
| Walter Bussart – Former Court of Appeals Judge, Tennessee |
| Andrea Cabral – Former Assistant District Attorney, Suffolk County Sheriff and Executive Secretary of Public Safety & Security |
| Margaret Cammer – Former New York State Acting Supreme Court Justice |
| Patricia Cantor – N/A |
| Jay Carlson – Former Law partner in DC |
| Michael Chanin – N/A |
| Nancy Chasen – Public Interest Advocate |
| James Clark – Sidley Austin LLP, partner (retired) |
| David Clark – N/A |
| Brian Clemow – Retired Law Firm Partner |
| James Cotter III – Attorney in private practice. |
| Jennifer Coulter – N/A |
| Charles Crumpton – ABA, Hawaii State Bar Association |
| Stanley Cygelman – Partner, Casner & Edwards, LLP |
| Brendan Daly – N/A |
| Douglas Davis – Attorney |
| Gill Deford – Retired |
| Steven Dodge – Former Deputy Public Advocate |
| Janet Donovan – N/A |
| Robert Drinan – N/A |
| Fernande (Nan) R.V. Duffly– Former Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court |
| Katharine DuVivier – N/A |
| Kellie Early – Concerned lawyer/citizen |
| Peter Edelman – Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy, Georgetown Law Center |
| Stewart Edelstein – Principal and Chair of Litigation Group, Cohen and Wolf, P.C., Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| Patrick English – Principal, Dines and English L.L.C. |
| Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal – Executive Director, Lawyers for Civil Rights |
| Evan Falchuk – Former independent gubernatorial candidate for Massachusetts and founder of the United Independent Party |
| Gina Fazio – Attorney |
| Cary Feldman – Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP |
| Nicholas Fels – Retired partner, Covington & Burling LLP |
| Eugene Fidell– Counsel at Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP and Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School |
| Daniel Finn – N/A |
| Barbara Hayden Fitts – Counsellor at Law |
| Nanette Fridman – N/A |
| Nancy Friedman – N/A |
| Nancy Gertner – N/A |
| Eunice Gibson – N/A |
| Martha Gifford – Past President, Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York |
| Peter Gilchrist’s – Former District Attorney 26 Judicial District |
| Leonard Glantz – Retired professor |
| David Glenn – Syndicated Radio Host, The David Glenn Show (present) |
| Dudley Goar – Attorney |
| Sharon Goddard White – Partner, White White & Van Etten PC |
| Ronald Gold – Retired former CT state public defender |
| Seth Goldschlager – President, EuroStrategy Associates, Inc, and former International Correspondent, Newsweek Magazine |
| Donna Goldsmith – Retired |
| Keith Gordon – Former Asstant New York State Attorney General |
| joan graff – President-Legal Aid at Work |
| Andrew Grainger – N/A |
| Jason Grimes – Attorney at Law |
| Randall Grometstein – Professor, Criminal Justice |
| Anthony Guadalupe Baerga – Principal, GBLO |
| Scott Harshbarger – Senior Counsel; Former MA Attorney-General |
| Scott Harshbarger, Chairman – Former National President of Common Cause and two-term Attorney General of Massachusetts |
| Patrick Harvill – N/A |
| Mary Haskell – N/A |
| M. Raymond Hatcher – Sloan Hatcher Perry Runge Robertson Smith & Jones |
| Rodney Hatley – Founder, Hatley Law Group, A P.C.; LCDR, JAGC, USNR; Former Special Assistant U.S. Attorney |
| Kevin Haughton – Deputy Public Defender |
| Jared Hautamaki – Attorney Advisor – Environmental Protection Agency, Reserve Appellate Judge – Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, former Legislative Assistant to Congressman John Conyers, Jr. |
| James Henderson – N/A |
| Wayne Henderson – Retired Attorney at Law — I say again, AT LAW |
| Geraldine Hines – Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Ret.) |
| Deborah Holbrook – Owner, Law Office of Deborah A Holbrook, Attorney-at-law |
| Christine Hopkins – N/A |
| Sandy Hovey – Executive Director, Public Guardian Services,MA |
| William Humenuk – Retired Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Buzzi Unicem U.S.A., Inc and former partner of Dechert LLP |
| Cathy Iles – Attorney at Law |
| Scott A Joseph – Jospeh Law Office |
| Barry Kaplan – Former Member ABA Section on Rights and Responsibilities |
| Molly Karlin – Assistant Federal Public Defender |
| Barbara Katz – N/A |
| Joel Kaye – N/A |
| Nicholas Kelley – Retired partner, Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP, Boston |
| William Kelly – Retired partner, Latham & Watkins |
| Paulette Kessler – N/A |
| Crawford Kirkpatrick – Registered Investment Advisor |
| Mark Kolman – N/A |
| Paul Kozikowski – N/A |
| Mitchell Kraus – Former general counsel Transportation Communications Union |
| John Lefcourte – Deputy Public Defender |
| Brian Lerner – Attorney at Law |
| Eleanor Roberts Lewis – Former Chief Counsel for International Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce |
| Geoffrey Lewis – N/A |
| Julie Locascio – Attorney at Law |
| Peter Lohnes – Former Associate General Counsel, Knowledge Mosaic |
| Fred M. Lowenfels– General Counsel Emeritus at Trammo, Inc. |
| Ellen Lubell – Principal,Tennant Lubell, LLC |
| John Macleod – Former Chair, Crowell & Moring |
| Victoria Macpherson – N/A |
| Peter Macy – Attorney licensed in Massachusetts and Washington State since 1994 |
| Derek Mann – Founding Partner, Orcas Law, LLC |
| Stanley J. Marcuss – Former Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s International Finance Subcommittee; former Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Commerce Department; former partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; former Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School; retired partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner |
| William Markstein – Member, New York City Bar Association; 1993 Clerk (Vice Chancellor Jack. B. Jacobs), Delaware Chancery Court |
| Lisa Marroni – Corporate General Counsel and Senior Vice President |
| Robert E. McDaniel – Former AUSA in the District of Columbia; former Head of Legal Affairs, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Republic of Kosovo |
| Lisa McGovern – Former Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County, MA |
| James F. McHugh – Former Associate Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court |
| Thomas Mela – Retired Managing Attorney of the Massachusetts Advocates for Children |
| Daphne Meredith – Former lawyer in private practice; retired public school teacher |
| Naomi Meyer – N/A |
| Bruce Mohl – Retired Justice, New Hampshire Superior Court; Former Deputy Attorney General of New Hampshire |
| John T. Montgomery– Ropes & Gray, former managing partner (retired) |
| John Murdock – N/A |
| James Murdock – N/A |
| Florence Murray – Attorney |
| James Nelson – Retired Justice, Montana Supreme Court |
| Nancy Lee Nelson – Nancy Lee Nelson, MPH, Health Law Attorney, Weber & Nelson Law Office, PLLC |
| Leslie Newman – Professor of Law Cardozo School of Law New York, NY |
| Jacqueline Nichol – Attorney at Law |
| Cheryl Niro – Former Partner, Quinlan & Carroll, Past President, Illinois State Bar Association |
| William Nitze – Chairman, Oceana Energy Company; former Assistant Administrator for International Activities, US EPA |
| Robert Noun – Former Director of Public Affairs, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| John Nyhan – Fredericks Peebles Morgan |
| Mary K O’Melveny – Former General Counsel, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO |
| Ann O’Shea – N/A |
| Edward Opton – University Counsel, University of California (retired) |
| Terrence Pancoast – Retired attorney |
| Pat Parenteau – Vermont Law School |
| Richard Parish – Retired attorney |
| Arthur Peterson – Former Assistant Attorney General, member of the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct, and president of the Alaska Legal Services Corporation. |
| Jeff Petrucelly – Treasurer of National Lawyers Guild Foundation & MA Chapter |
| Stuart Pink – N/A |
| Griffith B. Price, Jr. – Partner and Senior Counsel (Retired), Finnegan LLP |
| Gershon M. (Gary) Ratner – Co-founder, LDAD; Founder & Executive Director, Citizens for Effective Schools; former Associate General Counsel for Litigation, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development; former Associate Director for Litigation, Greater Boston Legal Services |
| Charles Reilly – N/A |
| Peter Rice – N/A |
| Michael Rich – Law Office of Michael L. Rich |
| Robert Rivkin – Former ACLU staff lawyer (Lawyers Military Defense Committee) |
| Allan Rodgers – Retired Executive Director, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute |
| Estelle Rogers – Public interest lawyer |
| Gretchen Roos – Corporate Counsel |
| Morris Rosenberg – Washington State Association for Justice |
| Stephen Rosenfeld – N/A |
| Stuart Rossman – N/A |
| David Rossman – Professor, Boston University Law School |
| Emanuel L. Rouvelas – Washington, DC |
| Fredric Rutberg – Former First Justice of the District Court of Central Berkshire |
| Grey Sample – Former public defender |
| Robert Saudek – Retired Managing Parter of Morris, Manning & Martin |
| David Schmid – AK Bar Assoc., & CA Bar Assoc. |
| Jonathan Shapiro – N/A |
| Jeff Sherbakoff – N/A |
| Barbara Siegel – Visiting Professor USC Gould School |
| Lisa Smith – N/A |
| Neal Sonnett – Former AUSA and Chief, Criminal Division, S.D. Florida |
| Marshall Stein – Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of MA; Former Chief Staff Attorney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
| Jeffrey Steinhardt – N/A |
| David W Steuber – Retired partner, Jones Day |
| Beth Stickney – N/A |
| Stephen Stublarec – Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP (retired) |
| Robin Swope – Colonel, Retired, US Army Judge Advocat General\’s Corps |
| Daniel Taylor – Retired Partner DLA Piper |
| Marilyn Moriah Tebor Shaw – Counsel, Brown & Michaels, P..C., Former, Former Judicial Administrator Office of the President, Cornell University; Associate General Counsel, National Gallery of Art, |
| Pauline Third – Retired Crown Counsel |
| Frederic Torphy – Massachusetts Bar Associations |
| Howard Trickey – N/A |
| Joseph Velasquez – Former Assistant Attorney General, Texas |
| Susan Wallace – N/A |
| Les Wallerstein – Attorney |
| John Ward – Attorney at Law |
| Henry Waxman – Former Member of Congress |
| Lisa Weissler – Retired assistant attorney general, State of Alaska |
| Peggy Wiesenberg – Access to Justice Fellow |
| Jeffrey Wiesner – N/A |
| Mary Allen Wilkes – Former Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County, MA |
| Stephen Wizner – Formerly trial attorney, criminal division, u.s. dept. of justice |
| Lucien Wulsin – Founder and retired Executive Director, Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) |
| Norah Wylie – Former Dean for Students Boston College Law School |
