{"id":8242,"date":"2019-12-17T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-calls-for-impeachment-of-attorney-general-william-barr\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:20:28","slug":"une-cause-commune-appelle-a-la-destitution-du-procureur-general-william-barr","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/press\/common-cause-calls-for-impeachment-of-attorney-general-william-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause demande la destitution du procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral William Barr"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8242","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Today, Common Cause called on the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach and the Senate to convict and remove Attorney General William Barr from office for obstruction of Congress, abuse of power and failing to faithfully execute his office. In a letter to every Member of Congress, Common Cause emphasized that Barr, despite serving as the nation\u2019s top law enforcement official, has violated his oath of office and put the interests of President Donald Trump before the interests of the nation.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[149,165,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Aujourd&#039;hui, Common Cause a appel\u00e9 la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants des \u00c9tats-Unis \u00e0 destituer et le S\u00e9nat \u00e0 condamner et \u00e0 r\u00e9voquer le procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral William Barr pour obstruction au Congr\u00e8s, abus de pouvoir et manquement \u00e0 l&#039;exercice fid\u00e8le de ses fonctions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Barr-Impeachment-Letter_12.17.19-FINAL.pdf\">lettre<\/a> to every Member of Congress, Common Cause emphasized that Barr, despite serving as the nation\u2019s top law enforcement official, has violated his oath of office and put the interests of President Donald Trump before the interests of the nation.\r\n\r\n\u201cAttorney General Barr has politicized the Department of Justice and undermined trust in the law by prioritizing and acting in the interests of a president who has committed impeachable offenses, rather than upholding the law and the Constitution. Attorney General Barr has repeatedly violated his oath to the people he swore to protect and must be impeached and removed from office,\u201d said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause. \u201cThe American people deserve an Attorney General committed to upholding the Constitution and applying the law without fear or favor. The Attorney General has repeatedly proven unwilling to put the interests of the nation before those of the man who appointed him and he must be removed from office before he does more harm to the nation.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe letter details a number of the more serious abuses of the office of Attorney General by William Barr. Most recently Barr ignored the evidence and conclusions of the Justice Department Inspector General\u2019s report finding the FBI properly launched an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Previously the Attorney General mischaracterized and undermined the work and conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian election interference and obstruction of justice \u2013 intentionally delaying the release of the actual report in order to release his own \u201csummary\u201d to undercut the Special Counsel\u2019s findings.\r\n\r\nThe letter also details Barr\u2019s actions to facilitate the Trump Administration\u2019s unlawful withholding of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint from Congress on the basis of his Office of Legal Counsel\u2019s severely flawed reasoning\u2014reasoning sharply criticized by the DOJ\u2019s own Inspector General and dozens of other federal agency inspectors general. Further the letter outlines the Attorney General\u2019s obstruction of the congressional investigations into the Trump Administration\u2019s attempt to insert a citizenship question into the 2020 Census by continuing to defy lawfully-issued Congressional subpoenas.\r\n\r\n\u201cAttorney General Barr is blatantly abusing the considerable powers of his office and undermining the rule of law in this nation and he must be removed from office,\u201d Paul S. Ryan, Common Cause vice president for policy and litigation. \u201cWilliam Barr\u2019s abuse of power is unprecedented for an Attorney General of the United States and cannot be tolerated in a democracy. Congress must move swiftly to impeach and remove William Barr from office.\u201d\r\n\r\nTo read the letter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Barr-Impeachment-Letter_12.17.19-FINAL.pdf\">Cliquez ici<\/a>."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common Cause Calls for Impeachment of Attorney General William Barr - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/press-releases\/une-cause-commune-appelle-a-la-destitution-du-procureur-general-william-barr\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Cause Calls for Impeachment of Attorney General William Barr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/presse\/une-cause-commune-appelle-a-la-destitution-du-procureur-general-william-barr\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-calls-for-impeachment-of-attorney-general-william-barr\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-calls-for-impeachment-of-attorney-general-william-barr\/\",\"name\":\"Common Cause Calls for Impeachment of Attorney General William Barr - 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