"All suggested that, even with the appeal of Lindsey Halligan's firing before the Fourth Circuit (the Fourth just granted DOJ's request to stall two weeks and keep the two appeals consolidated), McBride's sins involved recharging the case in EDVA, even though DOJ abandoned its attempts to reindict Letitia James (on the mortgage fraud; now they're pursuing hairdresser fraud) before it appealed."
"Colleen Kollar-Kotelly attempted to juggle the genuinely complex issues before her, granting one after another notice of defiances masquerading as emergency motions for delay for the government, before - seemingly - issuing a final order on December 23, requiring the government to turn over all materials it had, but allowing it to delete the single no-longer classified file they used to obtain the materials back in 2017."
"For the foregoing reasons, the Court shall GRANT IN PART the Government's [22], [33] Emergency Motions to Clarify and Modify the Court's Order and AMEND its [20] Order dated December 12, 2025, to make explicit that the Government may delete the purportedly classified document identified in 2017 from any material that it returns to Petitioner Richman. Because the Government has not shown that it has a lawful"
Robert McBride was fired. The firing coincided with the convening of a Southern District of Florida grand jury. McBride acted as the sole non-defense lawyer litigating Dan Richman's efforts to recover files related to James Comey. The Fourth Circuit granted a DOJ request to stall appeals for two weeks and keep two appeals consolidated. DOJ abandoned attempts to reindict Letitia James on mortgage fraud and pursued a separate hairdresser fraud matter. Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the government to return all materials but allowed deletion of a single purportedly classified 2017 file.
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