The star-crossed Lindsey Halligan era came to a close in the Eastern District of Virginia yesterday, as two judges said the lawyer Trump installed as acting US Attorney must leave her post. Another judge previously found that the administration "had used an unlawful maneuver to install" Halligan, a former personal attorney for President Trump who had no prosecutorial experience and carried out Trump's orders to pursue flimsy prosecutions against perceived enemies like James Comey and Letitia James. ( Washington Post)
I thought the case was a choose-your-own-adventure of procedural errors, Adamson said. And here we are because this was a huge oneHalligan being appointed after the 120 days of the interim appointment had been exceeded was a huge problem. And indeed the court agreed that she wasn't lawfully appointed. And the problem here is that Halligan did everything on her own. And so now these indictments can't stand.
Comey was indicted in September in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of making a false statement to Congress and obstruction. The case has been suspected from the beginning, when President Donald Trump called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute some of his political nemeses, including Comey. On Monday, a federal magistrate judge said Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was previously Trump's personal attorney, committed profound investigative missteps when seeking Comey's indictment by the grand jury.
A federal magistrate judge said today that the criminal case against James Comey, the former FBI director, could be in trouble because of a series of apparent errors committed in front of the grand jury by Lindsey Halligan, the inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to oversee the matter. The judge's statement is what The Times describes as a, quote, remarkable rebuke of Lindsey Halligan.
A magistrate judge in the United States has issued a stern rebuke to the administration of President Donald Trump, criticising its handling of the indictment against a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Comey. On Monday, Judge William Fitzpatrick of Alexandria, Virginia, made the unusual decision to order the release of all grand jury materials related to the indictment.
On November 3, Currie revealed that when prosecutors gave her the transcripts on October 31, they hadn't given her the part she most needed - revealing what Lindsey Halligan said to the grand jury - and ordered them to try again, asking them to provide a complete transcript and/or recording of what Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer did.
But with Halligan's qualifications in question, it appears Bondi revisited the date around her appointment. In a court document that was signed on Halloween and filed on Monday, Bondi wrote that as of September 22, she was appointing Halligan "to the additional position of Special Attorney." (I, too, would like to pretend October didn't happen.) This way, if a judge decides that yes, Trump unlawfully installed Halligen, she'll still have plenty of authority to oversee cases against Trump's political foes.
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John Durham the former special counsel appointed during President Donald Trump's first term to investigate the origins of the Russia probe undercut the Trump DOJ's case against former FBI Director James Comey, a new report revealed Monday. According to ABC News, Durham spoke with prosecutors in August and told them that during the course of his nearly four-year long special counsel investigation, he could not uncover any evidence in support of charges against Comey for obstruction of false statements.
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday. In a social media post just after he departed the White House for an event at Mount Vernon, Trump wrote he was nominating Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, writing that she "will be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!"
