Updated at 1:33 p.m. ET
President Trump said Friday that he intends to nominate William Barr, a prominent Republican lawyer and former attorney general, to return and lead the Justice Department.
Barr, who served as George H.W. Bush’s attorney general from 1991 to 1993, holds sweeping views of executive power and hard-line positions on criminal justice issues.
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