Barr's Irritation Mounts

So Attorney-General William Barr professes irritation at President Trump's tweets and his public attacks on prosecutors, judges and jurors. (Front page, 2/19) Many regard his protestations as a transparent effort to screen the fact that Mr. Barr has been waging a campaign to undercut those very prosecutors, judges and jurors by questioning their motives, altering their work product or initiating investigations calculated to cower or punish them. If Mr. Barr does resign, it will not be because he is displeased with Mr. Trump. Rather, he may leave because of the growing condemnation by thousands of former prosecutors and expected pushback by federal judges of his unprecedented intrusion into and distortion of the justice system and because of a loss of his control over a Justice Department confounded by his relinquishment of its traditional independence.