Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said President Donald Trump should reconsider picking William Barr as his attorney general nominee and find a replacement.
Schumer’s comments came after The Wall Street Journal reported Barr blasted special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into potential obstruction of justice by Trump in an unsolicited memo to the Justice Department back in June.
Schumer took to Twitter to comment on Barr.
He wrote: "William Barr's memo to the Department of Justice criticizing the Special Counsel investigation reveals that he is fatally conflicted from being able to oversee the Special Counsel's investigation, and he should not be nominated to be Attorney General.
"Mr. Barr believes presidents in general — and more frighteningly, President Trump, who has shown less respect for rule of law than any president — are above the law.”
Schumer added: "The fact that he holds these deeply misguided views and chose to launch them in an unprovoked written attack on the Special Counsel unquestionably disqualifies Mr. Barr from serving as Attorney General again.
"Since Mr. Barr hasn't been formally nominated yet, the president must immediately reconsider and find another nominee who is free of conflicts and will carry out the duties of the office impartially."
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