"There's a bunch of craziness and what really seems to me like a bunch of crazy failure that is unfolding this week on the legal front, specifically, what appears to be some really bad lawyering inside the Trump administration. A bunch of these things is about to come sort of to a head all at once, all over the course of this week. And I want to know what it means and how it might change things going forward. Let me explain."
"the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia recently, and they instead instead installed one named a woman named Lindsey Halligan, who was a random Florida insurance lawyer and Trump fan who had never so much as prosecuted a traffic ticket. It's under Lindsey Halligan's estimable authority that that U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia brought federal criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey"
Several federal criminal cases brought by a Trump-appointed prosecutor are facing imminent collapse amid claims of poor lawyering and legal chaos. The Eastern District of Virginia removed its previous U.S. attorney and installed Lindsey Halligan, a former Florida insurance lawyer with no prosecutorial experience. That office filed charges against former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress and against New York Attorney General Letitia James over mortgage paperwork irregularities. The prosecutions have been characterized as high-profile and criticized as potentially malicious. Multiple legal matters are expected to converge in the same week, increasing scrutiny of the cases.
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