Judge To Lindsey Halligan: Why Are You Still Calling Yourself 'US Attorney'?
A federal judge yesterday ordered the hand-picked Trump prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia to explain in writing why she had continued to lay claim to being the U.S. attorney, even after a different judge found she had been unlawfully appointed to the post. Amazing how little self-respect this cult of personality has. Via the New York Times:
The order by the judge, David J. Novak, in Federal District Court in Richmond, Va., was the most robust effort to date to press the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, on why she has continued to serve in the job, despite a ruling disqualifying her from performing it. Judge Novak gave Ms. Halligan seven days to respond to his demands to tell him why her repeated decisions to sign court papers as the district’s top prosecutor were not “a false or misleading statement” — a move, he suggested, that could lead to disciplinary measures.
Judge Novak’s order came some six weeks after Judge Cameron McGowan Currie found that the Justice Department had violated both the Constitution and laws governing the appointment of U.S. attorneys when it installed Ms. Halligan in the post, after Mr. Trump fired her predecessor.