Devlin Barrett
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272 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 9 Jun
Devlin Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But in fact, on Monday, the first judge's opinion dismissing these cases came on the technical issue of Lindsay Halligan's appointment.
Right.
The judge basically agrees with the arguments Comey and others have made that you can't have essentially a double temporary U.S.
attorney.
And the judge says that it simply can't be right that when you don't follow the normal process for putting a U.S.
attorney into that job, that would sort of negate the whole purpose of having a rule about this to begin with.
So what the judge said was this.
It would mean the government could send any private citizen off the street into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the attorney general gives her approval after the fact.
That cannot be the law, the judge wrote.
And what she means by that is if you were to allow this system to continue to the obvious conclusion, you really wouldn't have any more Senate-confirmed U.S.
attorneys.
It would just be the president picks whoever they want, whenever they want, and they just keep doing that.
Right.
And as part of the legal basis for making this decision—
She cites explicitly a decision ended up last year by a different judge in a different courtroom named Aileen Cannon, who dismissed the Trump charges for mishandling classified information because that judge found that the prosecutor in that case, a guy named Jack Smith,
was improperly appointed.
And it's an amazing bit of courtroom karma that that legal argument has now been used to dismiss an indictment that the president demanded.
Exactly.
And I'll say, having attended the hearing that led to this decision, she brought up that Cannon ruling on Jack Smith in the hearing itself.
She flagged it as, well, don't I have to follow the example set by Judge Cannon in US v. Trump?
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