Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer has been calling for Attorney General Bill Barr to resign or to be impeached. Today he got a chance to make his case before the House Judiciary Committee. During a hearing on the politicization of the Justice Department Ayer testified “We’re on the way to something far worse than Watergate,” adding that “Barr poses the greatest threat in my lifetime to our rule of law.”
Don Ayer is a highly distinguished and cautious lawyer. He’s also quite conservative. For him to say this about Barr is quite something. https://t.co/Jrao9TIAuL
— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) June 24, 2020
Watch Ayer’s full statement above.
Barr himself is now also set to testify before the same committee next month.
The Attorney General has accepted an invitation to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for a general oversight hearing on July 28th.
— Kerri Kupec DOJ (@KerriKupecDOJ) June 24, 2020