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Inside the Confirmation Hearing for AG Nominee Barr (photos)

By Jeff Malet • January 17, 2019 0 4333

William Barr testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination as U.S. attorney general. Photo by Jeff Malet.

Attorney William Pelham Barr testified at a two-day Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 15 and 16 on his nomination to be attorney general of the United States.

Nominated by President Donald Trump, Barr previously served as U.S. attorney general under President George H.W. Bush from 1991 to 1993. He was grilled by Senate Democrats on his views regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, seeking assurances that his Justice Department would not impede the investigation and that the full final report would be made available to the public.

View Jeff Malet’s photos from the Hart Senate Office Building hearing room by clicking on the photo icons below.

: William Barr waits his turn on the stand with wife Christine and daughter Margaret, Margaret Barr, a former assistant U.S. attorney in D.C. (photo by Jeff Malet)

: Attorney general nominee William Barr’s 8-year-old grandson Liam chats with Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) (photo by Jeff Malet)

: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) waits for the hearing to begin (photo by Jeff Malet)

: William Barr is sworn in (photo by Jeff Malet)

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: William Barr testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination as U.S. attorney general. Photo by Jeff Malet.

: Barr family watches from the first row in the visitors gallery (photo by Jeff Malet)

: William Barr testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination as U.S. attorney general. Photo by Jeff Malet.

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: Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) (photo by Jeff Malet)

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: Committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) (center) is flanked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Sen. Diiane Feisnstein (D-Calif.) (photo by Jeff Malet)

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: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) questions William Barr (photo by Jeff Malet)

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: Committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) (center) is flanked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Sen. Diiane Feisnstein (D-Calif.) (photo by Jeff Malet)