Nightly Nuance - May 26, 2021

Hello, my friends.

I don’t want to think or talk or write about Donald Trump, Bill Barr, even Bob Mueller ever again as long as I live.

And yet for 3 reasons, I find a recent order from US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson highly relevant to this question: may the government effectively lie to citizens and the courts about its deliberations and conceal the documents underlying those lies?

Judge Berman Jackson ordered that a memo about Barr’s decision to mischaracterize the Mueller report to Congress and the public be made public. And the Biden administration DOJ is fighting this order.

What a time to be alive.

Resources:

Read the Order 

NBC News on the Order, Part 1

NBS News on the Order, Part 2

ABC News on the Order 

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