Lindsey Halligan Fires Prosecutor Who Resisted Indicting Letitia James

Originally published at: Lindsey Halligan Fires Prosecutor Who Resisted Indicting Letitia James - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Another Round Of Trump DOJ Purges U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan – who reportedly has U.S. marshals accompanying her for security protection within her own office – has fired two more career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia. Beth Yusi and Kristin Bird received termination letters, CNN reports. Yusi was the senior prosecutor in Norfolk…

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oh that’s easy. If a Democrat does it.

ETA: ooh, first!


(not my dog, fyi)

ETA2: more protest dogs!



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More on today’s hearing.

the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement field director is heading out of town and two other officials are set to testify Monday instead.

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Of course! “It was only a joke!”

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James, Shiff, et. al. They didn’t get Capone for murder. They got him for mortgage fraud.

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Much more visible body hair than I am comfortable with.

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Tax evasion

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Yes. I know.

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Time to crime!

When the cat’s away, the mice will play.

The DOJ the is too busy cutting its own dick off to do any actual law enforcement.

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We need to be going after and shaming the entire R party and all their apparatus. Chump is a sideshow freak.

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Coming soon to a congress near you…

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Today’s Heather & Paul:

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When it comes to Trump appointees, I always try to distinguish those born Nazi from those who became Nazi to get ahead. For example, my former Congressperson, who is now Secretary of Labor, is in the latter group. Stephen Miller, well that’s easy.

Lindsey Halligan Is a tough one, but I am beginning to see that God made her that way and it took Trump to bring her out of the Gestapo closet.

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More on questionable ICE techniques. Yes, used occasionally for years, but increased tremendously under this admin and justification is mystery.

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U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan – who reportedly has U.S. marshals [accompanying](http://Erez Reuveni)her for security protection within her own office

Well, I’ve got to imagine the water cooler talk must be extremely interesting.

I mean..I know in some offices, you’ve got to watch your back, but this is absurd.

When you have to get a restraining order against your own fellow attorneys..

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I met her in the 1991ish in Ann Arbor. She was walking through Nichols Arcade and I said, “Hey, you’re Joan Baez!”. She said, “Yes!”. I kept on walking. Didn’t know really know what to say. Wish I’d known at the time that her parents and my grandparents had been neighbors.

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You’re lucky he didn’t hose you down with 50 calibers!! He’s totally allowed to do that!!

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