Fight to Restart Federal Executions Could Go to Supreme Court: Attorney General
Attorney General William Barr said that the Trump administration s effort to restart federal executions could go to the Supreme Court.
The administration is appealing a decision by a district court judge who ruled this week that the government cannot restart the executions.
If the appeal is blocked, then Barr will take the case to the nation s highest court, he said onboard a government plane to Montana after meeting with law enforcement officials in Ohio.
He said the five inmates set to be executed are a small portion of 62 death row inmates.
There are people who would say these kinds of delays are not fair to the victims, so we can move forward with our first group, Barr said.