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Kamala Harris CROSS EXAMINES Attorney General Bill Barr about Mueller Probe, and Barr's decision to NOT CHARGE TRUMP about Russian interference

Here's Senator Kamala Harris relentlessly hunting down US Attorney General William Barr about how well-founded his decisions regarding the Mueller Report were, and whether he easily let President Donald Trump off the hook.    The Special Counsel investigation was an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, alleged links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and possible obstruction of justice by Trump, conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019. It was also called the Russia investigation, the Mueller probe, and the Mueller investigation. Prior to the appointment of the Special Counsel, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been, starting in July 2016, covertly investigating activities by Russian operatives and by members of the Trump presidential campaign, under the code name "Crossfire Hurricane". The investigation culminated with the Mueller Report which concluded that — though...

OUCH! Like everything else Trump inherited, he ran America's economy into the ground - Kamala Harris

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  This Week @ThisWeekABC tweeted this video on August 12 with the caption: Sen. Kamala Harris: Pres. Trump "inherited the longest economic expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And then, like everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground." http://abcn.ws/320qSpR

How bad can Collegium's selection criteria be? Justice Joseph is a sample

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Judges selected by the collegium for higher judiciary are sometimes worse than useless, according to Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi. Rohatgi gave the instance of Justice Cyriac Joseph. As a judge of Delhi High Court, Justice Joseph performed miserably. He reserved more than 100 judgments and went out on being transferred without delivering the judgments, so that all the cases had to be reheard. Later, as Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court, Cyriac Joseph delivered 162 judgments of which 89 "cannot be even called orders as they did not decide rights of the parties. These are merely stating that the petition has become infructuous or allowing the petition to be withdrawn. Of the 162, only two could be called judgments... But both these were authored by the other judge who was part of the bench," the AG said. Justice Cyriac Joseph was very successful at climbing the career ladder. Only one month after being appointed as permanent judge of Kerala High Court in July 19...