"Virginia sent a polite letter explaining that it would pass on looking into allegations of a pattern of misconduct and would rather leave it to the courts. "Whether criminal indictments were obtained throughmaterial misrepresentations of fact and done for political purposes falls within the authority of the court to determine and not this office." Folks... your professional gatekeepers in 2025!"
"In fairness to the Virginia State Bar, the most egregious allegations - the ones involving Halligan's illegal actions as a squatter pretending to be a U.S. Attorney and her shady effort to ramrod through a falsified indictment in a desperate bid to beat the statute of limitations - may well have been properly within the court's purview. While every adult with"
The Campaign for Accountability filed ethics complaints in Virginia and Florida alleging Lindsey Halligan violated bar rules while acting as Interim-But-Not-Legally-Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Virginia State Bar responded that investigating a pattern of misconduct and whether indictments arose from material misrepresentations and political purposes fell within the courts' authority, and it would not pursue the complaints. The response drew criticism for abdicating disciplinary responsibility. Some allegations—Halligan's alleged illegal occupation of the U.S. Attorney role and use of a falsified indictment to beat the statute of limitations—appear to fall squarely within judicial review, but critics say the bar should still act.
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