Now at the part of the movie where the audience walks out because it’s just too stupid. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
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Now at the part of the movie where the audience walks out because it’s just too stupid. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
Any wait to read this book by my brilliant friend @weissmann.substack.com!
Exactly @mimirocah1.bsky.social !
Proud of Maurene & the law firm that hired her (which shouldn’t take courage but in today’s world it dos). She is a star and they are lucky to have her!
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Always great to join @harrylitman.bsky.social & @talking feds.bsky.social
Here you have it—an ALL NEW @talkingfeds.bsky.social w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social, @klasfeldreports.com & @mimirocah1.bsky.social.
We unpack the Court’s tariff ruling, conservative infighting, lower court fury over deportations, and what Epstein accountability could look like next. bit.ly/TariffsTF
This is how you do it. Arms length, no interference, cooperation.
@mimirocah1.bsky.social's back in THE BACK ROOM discussing #Bondi's duplicitous testimony and the corruption at DOJ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
Bondi summed up: the stock market is up and every state has at least one horrible crime I can talk about so stop asking me questions about the DOJ!!!!!!!! (Yelled very loudly).
Pam Bondi is testifying before the House committee right now.
So far, she's failed to acknowledge the Epstein survivors sitting behind her.
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social and @mimirocah1.bsky.social caution that this hearing "may well be the survivors’ last hope for justice."
Read:
New from @mimirocah1.bsky.social and me. contrarian.substack.com/p/doj-can-gi...
“We shouldn't have a favorite politician in the Justice Department; we should have a favorite document, and that's the Constitution," former prosecutor Perry Carbone told ABC News. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-offic...
Pains me to write this with my friend & former colleague Perry Carbone (I’m writing a longer form for my book out in September). “The Justice Department and the FBI are no longer functioning primarily as law enforcement agencies. Instead, they are being used as tools for political leverage.”
But they wanted this guy to be US Attorney in a powerful office just a few months ago. What changed?
A leaked internal ICE memo claims agents may enter homes without a judicial warrant. This is constitutionally dangerous for all Americans, @mimirocah1.bsky.social warns.
"It should concern everyone who values privacy, liberty, and the rule of law — regardless of their views on immigration."
Know our rights. Critically important read from @mimirocah1.bsky.social:
My latest for @cafedotcom.bsky.social
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
"In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end."
— U.S. District Judge David Novak, a Trump appointee
Case 3:25-cr-00160-DJN Document 23 Filed 01/20/26 Page 1 of 18 PageD# 180 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Richmond Division UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. DAVANTE AANDRELL JEFFERSON, Defendant. Criminal No. 3:25cr160 (DJN) MEMORANDUM ORDER (Striking and Barring Future Use of Title; Providing Notice) This matter comes before the Court on the United States of America's (the "Government") Response to the Court's January 6, 2026 Order (ECF No. 22 ("Response"), which was submitted to the Court and signed by Ms. Lindsey Halligan on January 13, 2026. Ms. Halligan's filing comes in response to an Order directing her to file a pleading explaining the basis for her continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in the face of United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie's binding Court Orders, issued on November 24, 2025, that found Ms. Halligan's appointment as Interim U.S. Attorney unlawful under both 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. (ECF No. 16 at 1;) see Opinion and Order Granting Motion to Dismiss Indictment, United States v. Comey, Criminal Case No. 1:25cr272 (E.D. Va. Nov. 24, 2025) (hereafter the "Comey Opinion"), ECF No. 213 at 28 (finding that the "appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution."); United States v. James, Criminal Case No. 2:25cr122 (E.D. Va. Nov. 24, 2025) (hereafter the "James Opinion"), ECF No. 140 at 16 (I conclude that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of
![Virginia was invalid and that Ms. Halligan has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025."). In both opinions, Judge Currie concluded that "[a]ll actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment... [constituted] unlawful exercises of executive
power ...." Comey Opinion at 28; James Opinion at 25.
Ms. Halligan's response, in which she was joined by both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice. The Court will not engage in a similar tit-for-tat and will instead analyze the few points that Ms. Halligan offers to justify her continued identification of her position as United States Attorney before the Court. Ultimately, the Court concludes for the reasons that follow that Ms. Halligan's continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for this District ignores a binding court order and may not continue; otherwise, Ms. Halligan and anyone who joins her on a pleading containing the improper moniker subjects themselves to potential disciplinary action in this Court pursuant to the Court's Local Rules.
I.
Relevant Procedural History
In her opinions, Judge Currie set forth the procedural history leading up to her decision.
The Court recounts here only that history necessary to evaluate Ms. Halligan's position in this
case:
On January 20, 2025, Jessica Aber, who had been nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate, resigned from her position as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The following day, the Attorney General appointed Erik Siebert as Interim U.S. Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 546. Mr. Siebert's 120-day interim appointment vas set to expire on May 21, 2025. So, on May 9, 2025, the judges of the district xercised their authority under section 546(d) to appoint Mr. Siebert to continue in hi](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreif3bv223wshsxxmb4jasqdgvweo47hwuddhlwuxr7rptl6edzh2qy@jpeg)
Virginia was invalid and that Ms. Halligan has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025."). In both opinions, Judge Currie concluded that "[a]ll actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment... [constituted] unlawful exercises of executive power ...." Comey Opinion at 28; James Opinion at 25. Ms. Halligan's response, in which she was joined by both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice. The Court will not engage in a similar tit-for-tat and will instead analyze the few points that Ms. Halligan offers to justify her continued identification of her position as United States Attorney before the Court. Ultimately, the Court concludes for the reasons that follow that Ms. Halligan's continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for this District ignores a binding court order and may not continue; otherwise, Ms. Halligan and anyone who joins her on a pleading containing the improper moniker subjects themselves to potential disciplinary action in this Court pursuant to the Court's Local Rules. I. Relevant Procedural History In her opinions, Judge Currie set forth the procedural history leading up to her decision. The Court recounts here only that history necessary to evaluate Ms. Halligan's position in this case: On January 20, 2025, Jessica Aber, who had been nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate, resigned from her position as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The following day, the Attorney General appointed Erik Siebert as Interim U.S. Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 546. Mr. Siebert's 120-day interim appointment vas set to expire on May 21, 2025. So, on May 9, 2025, the judges of the district xercised their authority under section 546(d) to appoint Mr. Siebert to continue in hi
NEWS: Judge Novak strikes Lindsey Halligan’s use of the “U.S. Attorney” title, finding that her doing so “ignores a binding court order.”
He also says her brief on the matter contains “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”
The Court further ORDERS that Ms. Halligan shall provide a copy of this Memorandum Order to the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, since they appear as signatories on her Response. It is so ORDERED. /s/ David J. Novak United States District Judge Richmond, Virginia Dated: January 20. 2026
Novak also orders Halligan, personally, to give the order to Bondi and Blanche.
Judge David Novak, a Trump appointee, slams Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche for responding to him with "a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show" than the DOJ.
There are some great candidates out there many of whom were fired by this DOJ for standing by their legal ethics and standards for prosecution!
Heroes.
My latest as a guest post for @talkingfeds.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
I know the news cycle is trying to move us on but Jack Smith’s testimony is worth going back to my highlights and analysis here for @cafedotcom.bsky.social
& prosecutors and defense attorneys will recognize some jury address lines! open.substack.com/pub/staytune...
Literally any other attorney general before Bondi would have fought tooth and nail and then resigned over this alone. Letting White House staff take over making public statements in the name of DOJ is in and of itself completely insane.
My latest for @msnowcomms.bsky.social
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We dig into the DOJ’s latest humiliations, the furor over Caribbean strikes, & Trump’s racist outburst—and ask why the country stays so quiet. bit.ly/StrikeTF
