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Deadline Legal Blog-Heading for legal loss in Comey case, Halligan makes misleading public case against the judge
The Trump-installed prosecutor reportedly took umbrage at the judge “referring to me as a ‘puppet.’” That’s not what happened.
Heading for legal loss in Comey case, Halligan makes misleading public case against the judge www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
— Liberty & Justice (@stand4truth.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T19:14:43.254Z
https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/comey-case-lindsey-halligan-new-york-post-rcna244956
Things are going badly for Lindsey Halligan in court. The myriad ways the James Comey case can be dismissed pretrial are mounting.
Apparently having seen the writing on the wall after a rough hearing Wednesday, Halligan attempted to make her case in the media against the presiding judge, Biden-appointee Michael Nachmanoff......
It’s hard to credit Halligan’s claim of being laser-focused when we are reading that claim in a media report — one that came out the same day her latest legal blunders were exposed in court, and the same week in which another judge called out her “fundamental misstatements of the law” to the grand jury.
In fairness to Halligan, she had never prosecuted a case before — but that goes to the point that she’s in the wrong job. As it happens, the question of whether she’s legally in the wrong job, i.e., unlawfully installed by the administration, is another topic that yet another judge is weighing. That’s yet another avenue that could lead to the dismissal of the case against Comey (and against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has raised similar issues).
But even if she’s a new prosecutor, she is a lawyer with a professional obligation to know better than to call out a judge for purportedly unethical conduct when the judge has done nothing of the sort. That’s especially so, given that Halligan could face her own ethical inquiry when all is said and done. A bar complaint has already been filed against her that highlights another questionable instance of extrajudicial statements, when she initiated a perplexing line of communication with a journalist.
Overall, Halligan’s misleading public comments read as an attempt to make a public case as the court case implodes. Context shows that her public case is also ripe for dismissal.
Apparently having seen the writing on the wall after a rough hearing Wednesday, Halligan attempted to make her case in the media against the presiding judge, Biden-appointee Michael Nachmanoff......
It’s hard to credit Halligan’s claim of being laser-focused when we are reading that claim in a media report — one that came out the same day her latest legal blunders were exposed in court, and the same week in which another judge called out her “fundamental misstatements of the law” to the grand jury.
In fairness to Halligan, she had never prosecuted a case before — but that goes to the point that she’s in the wrong job. As it happens, the question of whether she’s legally in the wrong job, i.e., unlawfully installed by the administration, is another topic that yet another judge is weighing. That’s yet another avenue that could lead to the dismissal of the case against Comey (and against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has raised similar issues).
But even if she’s a new prosecutor, she is a lawyer with a professional obligation to know better than to call out a judge for purportedly unethical conduct when the judge has done nothing of the sort. That’s especially so, given that Halligan could face her own ethical inquiry when all is said and done. A bar complaint has already been filed against her that highlights another questionable instance of extrajudicial statements, when she initiated a perplexing line of communication with a journalist.
Overall, Halligan’s misleading public comments read as an attempt to make a public case as the court case implodes. Context shows that her public case is also ripe for dismissal.