Lindsey Halligan Manages To Lose Two Cases At Once, Which Is Honestly Impressive - Above the Law

""The Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid,""

""to evade the Senate confirmation process indefinitely by stacking successive 120-day appointments.""

""The implications of a contrary conclusion are extraordinary. It would mean the Government could send any private citizen off the street - attorney or not - into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the Attorney General gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law.""

Lindsey Halligan's appointment as interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was declared invalid because the statutory 120-day interim limit had lapsed. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie disqualified the appointment and dismissed prosecutions against James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James without prejudice. The court rejected the argument that successive 120-day appointments could be used to avoid Senate confirmations, finding such a practice would permit evasion of the confirmation process. The judge emphasized that a private citizen or non-government attorney could not lawfully be sent into a grand jury to obtain an indictment.

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