William Barr will "not kowtow" to President Donald Trump and will do the "right thing" if confirmed as attorney general, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday while predicting the veteran prosecutor will be confirmed.
"Some Democrats will raise a fuss about him but in the end, he will be confirmed and do a great job," Dershowitz said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "He is going to be highly respected and I think he will be a great attorney general this time as he was last time."
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were scheduled to vote Thursday afternoon on whether to send Barr's nomination toward being confirmed. Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, is a "very serious person" and respected on both sides of the aisle, said Dershowitz.
He said he does hope if Barr is confirmed and decides to release special counsel Robert Mueller's report about his probe into Russian meddling, he'll do the "right thing" and present the report to Trump's defense team, giving it an opportunity to file its own report and releasing both at the same time.
Some Democrats on the committee, though, have said they will not vote for Barr. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, said he remains troubled by a memo Barr wrote criticizing Mueller's investigation into obstruction of justice.
"I think the memo was a brilliant memo," said Dershowitz. "I think it will be taught in law schools. Barr is right and the senator is wrong."
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