Will Chamberlain
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298 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 10 Jul
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The cases have now been dismissed and probably delivered a humiliating defeat to the Trump administration.
And just to be clear, we're talking about today's opinion says very clearly, in both opinions, there's a Comey opinion, there's a James opinion, they're substantively identical, that Lindsay Halligan was unlawfully appointed under the federal statute that was used as the basis for her appointment.
That allows the attorney general to appoint an interim U.S.
attorney for 120 days.
And basically what the judge is saying here is you already had somebody in that position for 120 days.
You can't use these 120-day periods successively.
When that 120-day period is over, you've got two choices.
You can either let the district judges appoint someone on their own or...
the president can nominate someone and the senate can confirm them but you can't do what lindsey halligan did here which is effectively walk off the street from the white house with no prosecutorial experience and then charge a case only to have this issue being raised by defendants and the attorney general saying after the fact oh everything that she did is totally fine by me i fully endorse it what the judge is saying here is not only was she unlawfully appointed from the beginning
But the attorney general does not have the right sort of ex post to say that's OK with me.
So in order to get there, you say that no matter what, they first have to appeal it.
And that process could be the thing that runs out the clock.
Because in theory, I think they could probably nominate somebody and potentially get them to the Senate in a shorter period than six months.
Well, think about who represents the state of Virginia in the Senate.
And so long as the blue slip process is active, remember that U.S.
attorneys are still subject to the blue slip process in the United States Senate.
What is the blue slip process?
It basically gives home state senators a choice in order to block the nomination or the floor consideration of someone who is nominated to be a district judge or a U.S.
attorney.
This is why Trump is relying on all these interim appointments in the first place.
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