"Back in December, the Virginia State Bar declined to pursue an ethics probe into the insurance lawyer posing as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Trump administration had illegally installed Lindsey Halligan into that role, and she took advantage of that opportunity to pursue bad cases against the president's perceived enemies list. And she even managed to screw those up."
"At the time, Virginia professional regulators refused to act on a complaint filed by the Campaign for Accountability, claiming "Whether criminal indictments were obtained through material misrepresentations of fact and done for political purposes falls within the authority of the court to determine and not this office." Fast forward, and the courts have adjudicated this and more, so the Campaign has filed its renewed complaint."
"Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick first found that Halligan made " fundamental misstatements of the law " in the grand jury process, including suggesting the former FBI director didn't have a Fifth Amendment right not to testify. Then Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Halligan had been unlawfully serving as U.S. Attorney since September 22, 2025, and had no lawful authority to present indictments against James Comey or New York Attorney General Letitia James in the first place."
Virginia regulators initially declined to pursue an ethics complaint against Lindsey Halligan, who had been installed into a U.S. Attorney role and pursued cases against political opponents. Courts later found Halligan acted without lawful authority, defied judicial orders, and made fundamental misstatements of law during grand jury proceedings. Judges concluded some indictments were presented unlawfully and that Halligan lacked authority to bring charges against figures like James Comey and Letitia James. Judicial rebukes ultimately pressured the Department of Justice to back away, and the Campaign for Accountability has renewed its ethics complaint.
Read at Above the Law
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