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The “why” is easy. Because he believes in almost unlimited Presidential power, thus undermining the very foundation of US Government and democracy, as I will discuss below.The question of “most” is more difficult. It is is a fairly subjective topic of course, perhaps depending on your political ideology, although there are many objective facts and criteria you could apply to make such a determination, including, most importantly, faithfulness to existing law.First, Jeff Sessions (under Trump, Republican), in his short time did a lot of damage to civil rights. Jeff Sessions Was the Worst Attorney General in Modern American History. So he gets some votes for worst US AG ever.Then there was a A. Mitchell Palmer back in 1919 (under Woodrow Wilson, Democrat). He never met a law he couldn’t abuse. Top 10 Worst Cabinet Members - TIMEIn more modern times, Nixon’s AG, John Mitchell, helped plan Watergate and was not actually a bastion of civil rights and legality. The Long History of Unjust and Lawless Attorneys GeneralThat last article also recounts how Bush’s AG, John Ashcroft (Republican), endorsed the use of torture. That certainly puts him in the running for “most egregiously lawless, unethical and dangerously disgraceful attorney general in U.S. history.”Let’s not forget Ed Meese who under Reagan (Republican), was involved in the Iran Contra affair (illegally selling weapons to the contra rebels directly contrary to Congressional mandates), and thus, along with Reagan, should have been impeached and convicted of violating the Constitution (separation of powers, among other things), and law.But Barr sets another precedent all together, and manages to lower the bar beneath even his lawless predecessors. That is, he seems to think that the Executive (president), is beyond the reach of any oversight or checks and balances, despite the fact that the Constitution created the US governmental system as a complex web of checks and balances to prevent the very thing we now see from Trump - a runaway, dictatorial Chief Executive, acting like a King, with no one to rein him in. (Certainly, the GOP Senate has let trump run amok, so they are as guilty as Barr.)Thus, we saw Barr actively mischaracterize the Mueller Report, effectively convincing the half of the country that was willing to be fooled, that Mueller found no evidence of wrongdoing. Which, as anyone who read the report or listened to any Congressional testimony or watched any of the trump impeachment hearings in either House knows, was just completely untrue. Indeed, Barr even lied to Congress about it, which would land you or me in jail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/02/morning-bits-worst-ag-performance-ever/He also sought to bury the Ukraine whistleblower report and was knee deep in that unholy mess. Opinion | Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr? He of course was completely wrong and trump was impeached but Barr did his darndest to let the president get away with that remarkably lawless and undemocratic blackmailing of an ally country (and, like Meese before him, defended a president’s actions that were completely contrary to Congressional mandate, i.e., withholding money from Ukraine that Congress mandated be given to them, for political benefit of the president, thus violating not only the law but the Constitution). Opinion | Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr?Barr recently took his unsupportable position of holding no one accountable to grand new heights by deciding to “un-guiltify” (this is the same kind of magic that Trump thinks will make COVID-19 “miraculously” disappear, I think), former National Security Advisor to Trump, Mike Flynn. Flynn pled guilty, in court, in writing, to many things, not the least of which was lying to the FBI and being an unregistered agent to a foreign country while being the National Security Advisor (holy f&&k), yet Barr decided to have the DOJ withdraw its charges. We’ll see what the Judge does, who already found Flynn guilty. As an attorney (and human being), I can tell you he won’t be happy about this, and he has the right to reject DOJ’s insanity. A new low for William Barr - The Boston GlobeIn doing so, Barr has claimed that the FBI acted incorrectly, and that is a recurrent theme in the Trump administration that Barr supports - anyone doing anything that the President doesn’t like is bad, wrong, to be vilified, attacked, and fired. That list is long - everyone from FOX News anchors such as Meghan Kelley to MSNBC reporters (of course) to CNN to the NY Times to the entire mainstream press to Mexicans and then all immigrants to military families to all US Security Agencies who agreed Russia attacked our 2016 election and are actively doing it again to Greta Thornburg to anyone trying to save the planet from climate change to all democrats in Congress to the 50% of the country who hates trump to doctors who don’t think we should drink bleach to governors trying to keep their people safe from COVID, etc. (But white supremacists well, they have some “very fine people” on their side.) So, the insidiousness and invidiousness of Barr is to support and enable a president like that.None of this was a surprise. Writing about Barr’s previous tenure as AG under Bush I, and in opposition to his nomination by Trump, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights notes among other things, Serious Concerns About the Nomination of William Barr to be Attorney General of the United States - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, that:As Attorney General during the George H.W. Bush administration, Mr. Barr’s draconian approach to law enforcement fostered a system of mass incarceration that disproportionately harmed communities of color across America.Barr holds deeply disturbing views on LGBTQ equality. In a 1995 law review article, he argued for a return to “traditional morality” based on “natural law,” and he criticized a Washington, D.C. law that prohibited Georgetown University from discriminating against LGBTQ student groups whose conduct he called “immoral.”Mr. Barr has defended controversial anti-immigrant positions. He expressed support for President Trump’s discriminatory Muslim ban, calling it “squarely within both the president’s constitutional authority and his explicit statutory immigration powers.”Barr has attacked women’s reproductive freedom, championing policies that would deny contraceptive access and abortion services.Perhaps worse than all that, Barr seems content to let the President use DOJ to persecute and prosecute political enemies, as if we were a banana republic. They went after McCabe but the grand jury told them to go to hell, and it seems Barr is still investigating the conspiracy theory about Biden’s son in Ukraine, although that has taken a backseat in the news to COVID-19. Mark my words, Barr will make some insane proclamation about it as we get closer to the election in November, in an attempt to damage Biden. Keeping an Eye on the Hand of Justice: Bill Barr and Targeting Joe BidenSo, yes, you can make a case that Barr is the WOAT (worst of all time), from the perspective of undermining democracy, law, and American confidence in their law enforcement officials and government.