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A judge ruled Lindsey Halligan was unconstitutionally appointed. Donald Trump’s team doesn’t care.

The Justice Department is still signing criminal indictments with Lindsey Halligan’s name—almost a day after a judge ruled that she was unlawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney.

Federal prosecutors were initially instructed to sign court filings in the name of Halligan’s first assistant, after U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie concluded Monday that Halligan had no authority to preside over the Eastern District of Virginia since she was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate. But just an hour later, internal emails instructed the department to continue using Halligan’s name, labeling Currie’s decision “premature,” reported MS NOW’s Lisa Rubin.

The move is a flagrant violation of Currie’s court order, which threw out Donald Trump’s cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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[–] jdredbeard@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

Disbar the whole bunch

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 78 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sound like there will me more criminal indictments tossed.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

LOONY Judges are IGNORING our legal and legitimate court filings. I always said the judicial branch is the very least good branch of government. Totally redundant to our very most good system of EXTRA-Judicial. Get rid of these crooked judges. Thank you for your attention to this matter

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

At this point, why are they even showing up in court? They're just going to do what they want against court orders anyway.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

You know how rapists force themselves on others? This same mentality seems to be shared by trump, his cabinet, and a lot of the gop.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, a good chunk of higher level trump admin stooges are rapists, sooooo no surprise.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

There's gotta be a token non-rapist in there somewhere, right?

Considering how incompetent they are, it wouldn't surprise me at all if a staffer or two missed their Epstein Island onboarding without their supervisor noticing.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 41 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

SCOTUS anointed a king.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 22 points 16 hours ago

Dang it! That's ALL we can Do! If ONLY she was Poor we could Enforce our Ruling!

-Judges!

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Does double jeopardy come into play if a prosecution is thrown out for not being a validly appointment AG, or is it like an annulment where it kind of never happened?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Double jeopardy is not a factor in this situation, because the first jeopardy "does not attach" until a jury is seated and sworn in for trial, or when a guilty plea is accepted. The trial by jury is the "jeopardous" part of the criminal justice process. If the case is tossed before that point for any reason, then there is no jeopardy bar to refiling.

If a trial starts, but ends in a mistrial, then it is usually possible to go to another trial, even though jeopardy "has attached". A mistrial ruling effectively "unwinds" the entire trial like it never happened.

or is it like an annulment where it kind of never happened?

This is what Judge Currie said in her opinion. The indictments didn't happen because they were run entirely by a pretend US attorney.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Well weren’t they falsely indicted on the very last day of the statute of limitations for the crimes in question?

I don’t think double jeopardy would apply, but that would…

(…this is just the opinion of regular guy without formal education or training in the field in question …)

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's like a 6 month grace period after the SoL if there's a problem with the indictment, where they could refile. I'm not sure what issues they're allowed to fix with that grace period, but there is some time there.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is there not being an indictment a problem with the indictment?

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

A question I certainly feel pretty much answers itself. Though, with this administration and how they have bent judges to their will before, I haven't the foggiest fucking idea how the courts will answer it.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

For Comey's. I was more concerned with these new ones. Like if whatever this power play was they were pulling, if it was hurting their revenge scheme or of it really didn't matter much more than wasted time.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 4 points 13 hours ago

The third box failed about a month ago, if not earlier.