Lindsey Halligan, Trump's Prosecutor, acts like Internet Blowhards... to a Reporter

[Majin Gojira]

I stumbled across this via Legal Eagle on YouTube, where reporter Anna Bower of Lawfare talks about what happened.

And I couldn't help but think that Halligan is acting like a lot of the people we've mocked on this site over the years. I guess you could call her a pure "Internet Blowhard" or even "Internet Karen" with this behavior. Stupid, knee-jerking, and in bad faith.

The reporter was flabbergasted by this. But thanks to all of you, I got the cold feeling in my spine of having seen it all before.

(other sources: https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-hallig ... n-10942865 )

[bilateralrope]

I haven't watch the video yet.

I've posted a few articles about her in the Reign of Trump thread. Starting with the James Comey indictment where she managed to make a mistake the judge had never seen before.

Oh and that case is her first criminal case. The question is not if she will get the James Comey or Letitia James cases to trial. She won't. The question is which grounds the judge will use to throw them out.

The Bolton cases looks stronger. As in, career prosecutors signed their name to it and the indictment sounds plausible from what we know. Though it's still possible for Halligan to blow that up.

[Raw Shark]

Whatever kompromat Daddy Vlad has on Donny Jingles, it's some epically fantastic and damning shit. It would be some trivial child's play for Russia to just get a pretty teenage girl hired to clean up at Epstein's house years ago on a total fishing expedition, and plant cameras all over the place, not to mention right out of their classic playlist.

[bilateralrope]

James Comey has made some amusing claims in his motions to dismiss:

- Ted Cruz asked Comey if he had authorised any release about the Clinton administration. Everyone knew he meant the Clinton investigation. But since the answer Comey gave was no, it was literally true. Literally true statements, even those intended to mislead, can not be prosecuted due to Bronston v. United States.

- Another statement Comey is being accused over is when he said that he stands by his previous testimony. Which is another thing that can be held as literally true, even if the previous testimony was a lie.

- Halligan kept the grand jury late. Comey's lawyers want the grand jury transcripts released because they suspect that she said something to make them think that they weren't going to be allowed to leave until they returned an indictment.

- One FBI agent had declared that he might have seen a privileged communication between Comey and his lawyer. Before that agent testified to the grand jury. Which means Comey's lawyers want the grand jury transcripts to see if that agent shared any of that with the grand jury.

Normally there is a presumption of regularity with grand juries that would prevent those last two motions from going anywhere. Comey's lawyers argue that the incompetence they and the judge have already seen from Halligan are enough to lift that presumption so they can check if everything was done correctly.

Comey's lawyers also filed for a bill of particulars because the indictment was too vague.