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Monday was a rough one for Lindsey Halligan, who proved herself bad at media and law.
First she discovered — too late! — that you have to tell reporters beforehand if you want the conversation to be off the record.
From Halligan’s text exchange with Anna Bower of Lawfare (who, for the record, is a fantastic journalist):
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Then, after sniping at a reporter for documenting her conversation, Halligan went back to prosecuting a former government official for lying about conversations with reporters.
Maybe she’s just pissed because Jim Comey knows how to speak on background?
But Halligan, who never prosecuted a case in her life before Trump made her US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was just getting started.
Indictment mad libs
As we detailed last week, Halligan was appointed US Attorney in EDVA, one of the busiest dockets in the world, for the express purpose of indicting Trump’s enemies, New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.
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Having secured those indictments, she now finds herself attempting to prosecute two high profile cases on the “rocket docket,” with a compressed briefing schedule and a culture that prides itself on moving cases through faster than any federal district in the country.
It’s not going well.
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On Monday, Comey’s team filed two aggressive motions to dismiss: one alleging selective and vindictive prosecution, and one alleging that Halligan was unlawfully appointed. Both contained revelations that could be fatal to the case.
Attached to the selective and vindictive motion was a 59-page spreadsheet cataloging all the nasty things Trump said about Comey since 2017, offered as evidence that this prosecution is the result of animus, rather than Comey’s alleged “crimes.” But that’s no revelation to anyone who’s logged onto social media in the past eight years. The revelation is tha