Devlin Barrett
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 9 Jun
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Again, you get to this summer and Justice Department officials are under pressure to charge Letitia James with some sort of mortgage fraud.
And eventually, once Lindsay Halligan is in place, Halligan brings an indictment.
Well, that's certainly what it looks like based on what we know.
And what we know is that career prosecutors said not only do we think this is not a good case, we don't even think this is a strong enough case to merit presenting it to a grand jury.
Correct.
And that becomes one of the bases for this challenge because...
One of the things that's very unusual about both these cases is that a new prosecutor parachutes in Lindsay Halligan and within a matter of days delivers indictments essentially on her own that her own office didn't think had merit.
So both Letitia James and James Comey fight back on a number of legal arguments, but they share one argument in particular, which is that
Lindsay Halligan's appointment was never lawful is just not right.
She shouldn't be the U.S.
attorney, can't be the U.S.
attorney.
Why?
Because normally what's supposed to happen is that a U.S.
attorney is supposed to be nominated by a president, confirmed by a Senate.
And if for whatever reason that can't happen, you know, there's a process to pick a temporary replacement for a limited period of time.
And as you might remember, I already said there was someone already serving in that role on a temporary basis.
So Lindsay Halligan becomes sort of a double temporary U.S.
attorney.
The defense argument here is actually a pretty simple one, which is like you can't just keep adding temporaries on top of temporaries at the same time that lawyers for Comey and lawyers for James are fighting about the Halligan appointment, which is kind of a technical issue.
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