Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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
? what was Halligan's response that lead to this statement?
Here's how it started:
"UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE TO THE COURT’S JANUARY 6, 2026 ORDER
In violation of the Rules of Criminal Procedure and the principle of party presentation,
the Court has initiated a sua sponte inquisition into whether it should strike Ms. Halligan’s title
from the Government’s signature block. The order launching this quest reflects a fundamental
misunderstanding of Judge Currie’s orders dismissing the indictments in United States v.
Comey, No. 1:25-cr-272 and United States v. James, 2:25-cr-122 and flouts no fewer than three
separate lines of Supreme Court precedent on elementary principles like the role of federal
courts, the effect of district court rulings, and the nature of our adversarial system.
Adding insult to error, the order posits that the United States’ continued assertion of its
legal position that Ms. Halligan properly serves as the United States Attorney amounts to a
factual misrepresentation that could trigger attorney discipline. The Court’s thinly veiled threat
to use attorney discipline to cudgel the Executive Branch into conforming its legal position in
all criminal prosecutions to the views of a single district judge is a gross abuse of power and
an affront to the separation of powers."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.586311/gov.uscourts.vaed.586311.22.0.pdf