Lindsey Halligan Steps Down as Virginia U.S. Attorney After Judges Rule Appointment Unlawful

A Trump-appointed federal judge orders Lindsey Halligan to stop 'masquerading' as a U.S. attorney

The lawyer refused to relinquish her job after another judge ruled that she had been unlawfully appointed.

You Can’t Fire Lindsey Halligan Two Months Ago, She QUITS

Big news on the “I’ve been standing in front of the mirror practicing saying YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT!” front. Does that mean you can try cases in federal court as a United States attorney, even if you are not one?What if you had been calling yourself a US attorney, but a judge found you and your Baywatch whistle had been illegally appointed, which really threw a wrench in your plan to make a name for yourself as the US attorney with the utter lack …

Brutal, Humiliating Benchslap Puts An End To Lindsey Halligan Experiment

Lindsey Halligan has finally done the one thing the Department of Justice steadfastly refused to do for months: acknowledge reality. Following an extended farce of legally illiterate cosplay as the “United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,” Halligan had to hang up her wings and tutu as Judge David Novak declared that playtime was over. In an 18-page benchslapping, Judge Novak formally barred Halligan from continuing to call h…

Lindsey Halligan, Trump's former personal attorney, exits Virginia prosecutor's office

The move comes after a federal judge wrote in a court document that the "charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney … must come to an end."

The Judicial Branch Didn’t Actually Cover Itself In Glory in the Lindsey Halligan Saga

Judges Sidestep Halligan Confrontation On the surface it looks like the federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia tackled the Lindsey Halligan problem head on. But if you look a little closer, the judges went out of their way to avoid a direct confrontation with the White House.