Would that stop her from occupying her current role? i.e. does she actually need to be a lawyer (or lolyer)? Genuine question, I don’t know if she does or not.
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Cannot wait to see the Legal AF responses to this! They’ve been covering all the Halligan stuff with vigor and not a little glee.
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In most (if not all) states, another member of that State’s Bar who is aware of ethical misconduct also has a duty to provide notice to the Bar of the misconduct, which can then be the basis of an investigation.
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Ya, but did the indictment have legs?
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This looks good for Comey, but a positive ruling on selective and vindictive prosecution would serve “the rest of us” much better overall, it seems.
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Moral of the story: One cannot get by on their looks, just ask Alina Habba……
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The very peculiar prosecution of James Comey without an indictment.
Isn’t this what a politicized prosecution looks like?
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I’d call it a rookie mistake, but that would be unfair to all other rookies, none of whom would fuck up this badly (of course any other rookie would have had a veteran alongside to prevent this sort of thing). Beauty Contestant Flubs Talent Competition
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It’s a Kafka prosecution. Only question: will there be a Kafka trial?
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I wonder if a class action lawsuit will be forth coming from those US citizens that have been swept up, detained for a few days, and had their property=vehicles damaged?
And shouldn’t there be another class action lawsuit from the many immigrants that have been going through the proper channels getting deported?
I realize that any monetary compensation will be coming from our tax dollars, but it should rightfully be coming from Trump and Noem, et al.
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Not really. It’s not like justice was being served in the first place.
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This is why we subscribe to TPM, @david_kurtz , great work.
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Yes, I used to be a lawyer before I graduated to senior counselor, and this is really really bad. Kinda like if she had a real Prosecutor for a boss it is the kind of thing that could get her fired. As it is Comey will likely walk. (Which is OK by me because they didn’t have a case in the first place.)
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So if Halligan has admitted to making up an indictment in this case… is that grounds for doubting the correctness of the indictments in all her other cases? Should Grand Jurors be brought in to testify that they really did vote on the indictment submitted to the court? That feels like punishing the jurors for Halligan’s screw up… but how can you trust any statement from her? Or Bondi (who “ratified” the indictment as correct) for that matter?
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Incompetence and corruption (with the emphasis on corruption) at levels never seen before.
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Trump’s attorney has argued in the past that Seal Team 6 could legally assassinate a perceived political opponent such as Comey. And the SC didn’t say NO WAY!.
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Only the best people, recall.
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Wow. So a Department of Justice personally run by Donald J. Trump and the staff he hired because he’s sure they’re even dumber and less competent than he is turns out to be a completely incompetent disaster on every level? Who’d-a-thunk it?
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The saving grace of the Trump regime is the flunkies in it are mostly morons.
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OK, I get it now. When the grand jury rejected one count, that meant that first indictment was thrown out. Proper procedure would be to prepare a new indictment with just two counts and present it to the full grand jury. As Joyce Vance and Preet Bharaha mentioned in their podcast, Halligan is a contracts lawyer, so she may have thought that it’s ok to just delete the rejected count and print out a new one. (Not that I’m absolving her.) That would make sense in other contexts, but that’s not how criminal procedure works.
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