The Justice Department Is Turning 150. Some Agency Veterans Say It Needs A Facelift
The Justice Department celebrates its 150th anniversary this month, but thousands of agency veterans aren't really feeling the love these days.
Instead, they worry President Trump has demolished the norms that were supposed to insulate prosecutions from politics.
At the center of the debate is Attorney General Bill Barr, who's scheduled to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
Barr has become a lightning rod for critics who argue he's not an independent officer in the way the boss of the Justice Department should be, but acting too much like a sympathetic counselor for the president.
In recent weeks, lawyers in Washington have pushed the bar association to investigate the attorney general. A bipartisan group of 65 professors and faculty at his alma mater, the George Washington University Law School, said he had "failed to fulfill his oath of office to 'support and
