Top officials at the Department of Justice fired off a hostile response to a federal judge who questioned why Lindsey Halligan is still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney in Virginia after she was found to be unlawfully serving in the role.
In their response, Justice Department officials accused the judge of making “rudimentary” legal errors and flouting “elementary” legal principles in a “gross abuse of power” for daring to suggest that Halligan could be misleading the courts.
