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Law’s Jonathan Adler discusses Attorney General William Barr’s decision keeping Hunter Biden investigations from public view

Barr kept Hunter Biden probes from public to avoid election politics

Wall Street JournalJonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, weighed in on Attorney General William Barr’s decision in the weeks before November’s election to prevent word of investigations into Hunter Biden from becoming public and keep the Justice Department out of campaign politics. “It doesn’t transform him from a villain to a hero, but it suggests he’s a more complicated figure than at least some of his critics were acknowledging,” Adler said.