"According to Newsweek, Halligan - who has been placed in charge of the bogus, MAGA revenge fantasy prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James - is facing scrutiny over a series of text messages exchanged with journalist Anna Bower of Lawfare, messages she initiated because she didn't like the way Bower was reporting James' prosecution. In an article recently published by Lawfare, Bower recalled that, on Oct. 11, she got a new message alert on Signal purported to be from Halligan."
""Anna, Lindsey Halligan here," the text read. "You are reporting things that are simply not true. Thought you should have a heads up." Bower wrote that she initially "assumed the exchange was a hoax," because "while it is not unusual for lawyers to reach out to me about my reporting or commentary, it is highly unusual for a U.S. attorney to do so regarding an ongoing prosecution-particularly in a high-profile case in which her conduct is already the subject of immense public scrutiny.""
Lindsey Halligan, a personal lawyer with no prosecutorial experience, was appointed interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The appointment risks high-profile cases being overseen by an inexperienced and politically connected prosecutor. Halligan exchanged Signal messages with Lawfare journalist Anna Bower after disagreeing with Bower's coverage of the prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Bower initially assumed the messages were a hoax. The direct outreach by a U.S. attorney about an ongoing, high-profile prosecution drew criticism as highly unusual and unprofessional. Commentators condemned Halligan's conduct as reckless and indicative of poor judgment.
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