"When Donald Trump appointed Lindsey Halligan to act as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, critics worried that he had tapped her specifically to bring prosecutions against his enemies. It didn't take long for Halligan to prove the critics right. On September 25, she successfully persuaded a Virginia grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey. Yesterday, she secured an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James."
""There is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so," Trump wrote on September 20 in a Truth Social post addressed to "Pam"-which, The Wall Street Journal reported, was intended to be a private note for Attorney General Pam Bondi, not a public message on social media. After that post, the Justice Department began moving quickly against Comey and James. Other criminal cases, including one against Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, are in the works."
"At this point in the Trump era, insisting that none of this is normal has become so routine, it feels like a cliché. But, well, none of this is normal. Trump's effort to turn the Justice Department into his personal legal weapon shatters norms of law-enforcement independence inculcated in the decades since Watergate, and arguably outstrips any previous abuses of the department at any other point in American history."
Donald Trump appointed Lindsey Halligan as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and she pursued indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Halligan presented the Comey matter to a grand jury as her first time acting as a prosecutor after her predecessor reportedly resisted. A Truth Social post by Trump saying "There is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so" preceded swift Justice Department action. Additional criminal inquiries, including one involving John Bolton, are underway. Observers say these moves undermine long-standing norms of law-enforcement independence dating to Watergate.
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