Diss Barr

   When the attorney general stepped in to tell federal prosecutors their sentence recommendation for a Trump buddy was too high and should be lowered, more than a thousand former DOJ officials went ballistic and called on AG William Barr to resign.
   No one should get "special treatment because they are a close political ally of the president," they said in a letter to the AG made public Sunday.
   "Such behavior is a grave threat to the fair administration of justice," they wrote, adding that when governments use their "enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies, they are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies."
   A week ago, the Justice Department urged a prison sentence of up to nine years for Roger Stone, a Trump ally, on charges of witness tampering.
   That was immediately followed by a tweet from the president calling the recommendation "horrible and very unfair."
   The next day, the DOJ intervened and called for a lighter sentence. That led the four prosecutors assigned to the case  to quit.
   And the day after that, the president praised Barr for "taking charge" of the case.
   This week, the federal judge overseeing the case will decide on punishment.