In a detailed letter to the Board on Professional Responsibility, LDAD rebuked the grounds for the OCD’s rejection of the complaint.

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Dear John,

Last July, twenty-seven attorneys, including four former presidents of the DC Bar, took the extraordinary step of filing a comprehensive ethics complaint against then Attorney General Barr ([link removed]) with the DC Bar's Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC). The complaint identified serious professional misconduct committed by Barr, including his deliberate efforts to whitewash the Mueller report.

The ODC subsequently refused to investigate Barr, citing its unwillingness to "intervene in matters that are currently and publicly being discussed in the political arena;” and the fact that Barr is a “public figure.” The ODC also stated that complainants “lacked personal knowledge of the facts or allegations concerning Mr. Barr.”

In a detailed letter ([link removed]) to Matthew Kaiser, chair of the Board on Professional Responsibility, LDAD and its fellow signatories rebuked the grounds for the OCD’s rejection of the complaint, and urged the Board to exercise its oversight authority over the ODC to reverse its decision to reject the complaint. The submission of the letter was coordinated by LDAD, along with the other distinguished D.C. lawyers.

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The Board of Lawyers Defending American Democracy ([link removed])

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