Certain, they stated. Go take a job because the interim U.S. lawyer for the Japanese District of Virginia, although you’re not certified, they stated. It’ll be enjoyable to be Trump’s Greatest Little Hatchet and go after his enemies, they stated.
By all measures, Lindsey Halligan may be very a lot not having enjoyable lately, only a month or so into her tenure at a job she holds not based mostly on her expertise, however as an alternative on her willingness to prosecute and persecute Trump’s enemies. Certain, she bought indictments towards each former FBI Director James Comey and New York Lawyer Common Letitia James, however apparently nobody informed Halligan that the indictment is just the start.
Former FBI Director James Comey
Now, to be truthful, by securing indictments, Halligan is at the very least doing higher than U.S. Lawyer for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. Pirro is busy placing up unprecedented numbers of grand juries refusing to indict on the comically inflated fees she retains bringing.
However, the way in which issues are unfolding, Halligan could be wishing she’d gotten no-billed on the Comey indictment and will simply stroll away.
On Sunday, Halligan filed a comically broad demand for a protecting order, mainly contending that Comey may by no means be left alone with discovery within the case for … causes. The factor reads like a ebook report about protecting orders, full with one among Halligan’s justifications being that she seemed up another protecting orders in prison instances within the Japanese District of Virginia, and this was identical to these!
Reader, it was not identical to these.
By Tuesday, Halligan had her reply from the choose: LOL nope. The request that mainly all materials within the case be topic to a protecting order and that Comey not be capable to entry it, save for within the presence of his attorneys, was far too broad, stated U.S. Choose Michael S. Nachmanoff, and would hinder Comey’s potential to arrange for trial.
Halligan additionally tried one other movement designed to slow-walk the federal government’s obligation to supply discovery by pushing out a typical discovery deadline, and that didn’t work out both.
Halligan can be outmatched anyplace, however no extra so than EDVA, the house of the rocket docket. Circumstances race by this district court docket. It’s a complete factor. Comey’s trial is already scheduled to start on Jan. 5, 2026. If Comey had requested it, the court docket was ready for an excellent earlier begin date in December.
Effectively, at the very least Halligan did discover some prosecutors to assist her with the case. Certain, she needed to go exterior her personal workplace—the workplace she is actually in command of!—and get two DOJ legal professionals from North Carolina assigned to the case.
No less than these two have some expertise in prosecution, a factor Halligan very a lot doesn’t. However hopefully, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gabriel Diaz and Nathaniel Lemons have some right-wing sinecure gig lined up for after this factor crashes and burns, as a result of child, it’s going to crash and burn.
Alina Habba, one other one among Trump’s unqualified picks
Comey’s already stated he’s going to file a movement of illegal appointment, arguing that Halligan is simply as improperly in her workplace as two of Trump’s different top-tier picks, Alina Habba and Sigal Chattah. Each Habba and Chattah have been dominated ineligible to carry their U.S. lawyer places of work as a result of the sophisticated machinations Trump has gone by to keep away from submitting their nominations to the Senate are, effectively, unlawful.
Provided that Halligan can be in her function through a shady momentary appointment fairly than Senate affirmation, Comey’s transfer is on no account an empty menace.
Seems that whereas it’s enjoyable to do press conferences and get indictments on threadbare nonsense, it sucks to really do the work of prosecuting. Does anybody need to lay odds on how lengthy Halligan lasts?
