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 Ron SachsWilliam Barr, Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, is widely regarded as a respected, experienced moderate likely to win support from Democrats and Republicans alike.
But in a 1995 essay, Barr expressed an extreme view that that American government should not be secular, but instead should impose "a transcendent moral order with objective standards of right and wrong that… flows from God's eternal law."
Barr went on to blame everything from crime to sexually transmitted diseases on a government-led attack on "traditional values." He explicitly called for the government to subsidize Catholic religious education and to promote laws which "restrain sexual immorality," a reference to homosexuality and non-marital sex.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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President Trump's lawyer minimized the importance of any potential campaign finance violations, but Democrats said they could potentially lead to impeachment.
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