John,

Yesterday, as a result of a CREW lawsuit, a federal judge ordered the Department of Justice to turn over a memo that then-Attorney General Bill Barr cited as key to his reasoning for not charging Donald Trump with obstruction of justice at the conclusion of the Mueller investigation. Read more here.

When Barr delivered the Mueller Report to Congress, he claimed there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge Trump, and cited a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel to justify his choice. CREW sued to make the memo public, and in yesterday’s ruling, the judge not only ruled in our favor, but said that the memo’s contents raise some serious questions, including whether Barr and the DOJ acted in bad faith in describing the memo to Congress and in court.

We’ll keep you updated in the coming weeks as we know more. The DOJ has two weeks to respond with their course of action. We’re hopeful that the DOJ under Attorney General Merrick Garland will do the right thing and release the memo. As the judge said, it is time for the public to see it. We couldn’t agree more.

Thank you,


Noah Bookbinder
President, CREW

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