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American lawyer, serving as the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia since September 2025
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that “’s legal team resigned before on Jan. 10, 2026”; the record instead shows contentious courtroom exchanges with Chutkan and separate personn...
The record shows a wave of departures among -aligned lawyers and hand-picked U.S. attorneys after a string of adverse court rulings that undercut the administration’s tactics for keeping loyalists in ...
, a Trump-aligned prosecutor who had served in a U.S. Attorney role, left after a federal judge sharply criticized her claim to the title — a departure that has been reported as part of a broader patt...
A string of judicial findings and courtroom admissions has put the Justice Department’s handling of the James Comey indictment under intense scrutiny: Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick said prosecu...
Since leaving her Florida attorney-general post and after becoming U.S. attorney general in early 2025, Pam Bondi has been central to a string of politically fraught DOJ actions and external probes — ...
A federal judge, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, dismissed the criminal indictments against James Comey and Letitia James because the prosecutor who brought the cases — Lindsey Halligan — ...
Available reporting shows Pam Bondi — now U.S. attorney general in these sources — has not been criminally charged in the stories provided; instead she is the subject of heavy criticism and court scru...
was named interim U.S. Attorney for on September 22, 2025, after political pressure to replace her predecessor, and her brief tenure collapsed amid court rulings that her appointment exceeded statutor...
A federal judge dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI director James Comey on November 24, 2025, finding that the prosecutor who signed the charges, Lindsey Halligan, had been unlawful...
A U.S. magistrate judge, William E. Fitzpatrick, has sharply criticized the Justice Department’s handling of the criminal case against former FBI director James Comey—finding evidence of “government m...
appointees stepped down in the wake of federal appeals‑court rulings in late 2025: resigned as the attorney for the District of after a panel of appeals judges found she had been serving unlawfully, a...
on executive-branch maneuvers to keep Attorney offices filled without confirmation, finding some interim and acting appointments unlawful while leaving other appointments untouched, a split driven by ...
Federal courts in 2025 repeatedly found that several "special" or interim U.S. Attorney appointments were unlawful, disqualifying officeholders and in at least one case requiring dismissal of indictme...
A federal judge dismissed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed, a ruling that Judge Cameron McGowan ...
Multiple courts have dismissed or paused criminal charges tied to Donald Trump for reasons including prosecutorial appointment defects, prosecutorial misconduct findings, presidential immunity and pro...
Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick issued an order on Nov. 17, 2025, directing release of grand‑jury transcripts to Comey’s defense and criticized prosecutorial conduct — that order was stayed by th...
Donald Trump’s push to prosecutors led to a federal indictment accusing New York Attorney General Letitia James of lying on mortgage paperwork to secure a $109,600 loan for a Norfolk, Virginia, house ...
A federal judge on Nov. 24, 2025, dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as...
Since taking office, Letitia James has been both a target and a litigant in high‑profile Trump‑era legal battles: her civil probe of Trump’s business helped secure a $355 million judgment against his ...
Judge criticism of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of certain prosecutions is documented in multiple outlets: judges in at least two separate matters have publicly questioned Bondi’s office for ...