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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 07:49 PM Tuesday

'Difficult to overstate the damage': Judge's striking rebuke of AG Bondi's DOJ instantly shows up in a bar complaint

Source: Law & Crime

Nov 11th, 2025, 2:45 pm


Several days after a U.S. magistrate judge criticized U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's Justice Department for an "indict first, investigate later" mentality in the prosecution of ex-FBI Director James Comey, a bar complaint has been filed against the controversially appointed rookie prosecutor who secured the indictment.

Left-leaning watchdog group Campaign for Accountability's (CfA) bar complaint, filed Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, accused the former defense attorney for President Donald Trump of violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, similar in approach to allegations that New York Attorney General Letitia James' attorneys levied in recent weeks.

The group, which brought a complaint against a different Bondi "special attorney" in August, asserted that Halligan's widely publicized berating of Lawfare's Anna Bower on Signal about the pending James prosecution — and her decision to seek indictments against the NYAG and Comey when career prosecutors believed the evidence against Trump's rivals was insufficient — together warrant the scrutiny of the Florida Bar and the Virginia Bar.

"Once in office, Ms. Halligan reportedly disregarded the conclusions of numerous experienced career prosecutors who had thoroughly investigated [Mr.] Comey's statements and found prosecution unsupportable. She then rushed to indict Mr. Comey in just four days, apparently failing to properly analyze the testimony at issue, the result of which was that she failed to recognize Mr. Comey's statements were literally true or at least not provably false," the complaint said. "Similarly, it has been reported that Ms. Halligan disregarded the conclusions of numerous experienced career prosecutors who had thoroughly investigated Ms. James's mortgage documents and found prosecution unsupportable.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judges-searing-critique-of-bondis-doj-instantly-showed-up-in-a-bar-complaint/



Link to Campaign for Accountability's (CfA) COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26222548/halligan.pdf
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'Difficult to overstate the damage': Judge's striking rebuke of AG Bondi's DOJ instantly shows up in a bar complaint (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP
This is good news, and might inspire appeals to other state Bar Associations to take similar actions. TheRickles Tuesday #1
her chief role now is Trump whore Skittles Tuesday #2
Just because she jollies trump doesn't mean she should screw the rest of us. erronis Tuesday #3
jollying Trump by extension means fucking the rest of us Skittles Tuesday #6
Thread winner orangecrush Tuesday #11
Good one. yellow dahlia Tuesday #10
All of his appointees are deplorable, but... GAtomboy Wednesday #13
Lindsey Halligan, please turn in your law license and vacate the premises immediately FakeNoose Tuesday #4
The only requirement that Trump demands some_of_us_are_sane Tuesday #5
Trump can hand out pardons, but... appmanga Tuesday #7
"indict first and investigate later" Botany Tuesday #8
I know ONE city in America awash in Crime... BurnDoubt Tuesday #9
I want to see... 2naSalit Wednesday #12

TheRickles

(3,063 posts)
1. This is good news, and might inspire appeals to other state Bar Associations to take similar actions.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 07:56 PM
Tuesday

IANAL, but it seems that plenty of other lawyers on Trump's team would also merit censure or sanctions or some other official rebuke if complaints were filed with their respective state Bar Associations.

GAtomboy

(290 posts)
13. All of his appointees are deplorable, but...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:26 AM
Wednesday

Bondi and Hegseth are truly vile scum. I want to see them both get b*tch slapped with Karma and rot in prison!

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,567 posts)
5. The only requirement that Trump demands
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 08:52 PM
Tuesday

is a good piece of ass....... especially blonde like his daughter. (He may not have working plumbing anymore, but he still likes to slobber and dream.)

HE'S A SICKENING, BROKEN OLD GRIFTER wiith the decorating taste of a pimp.

appmanga

(1,304 posts)
7. Trump can hand out pardons, but...
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 09:04 PM
Tuesday

...what he can't do is stop state bar associations from revoking law licenses from those who've betrayed their ethics and oaths. The pardons Trump issued to Giuliani, Sydney Powell, Jenna Ellis, et al, doesn't restore their law licenses. This is what Pam Bondi, Ed Martin, and the rest of these cretins can look forward to.

BurnDoubt

(1,244 posts)
9. I know ONE city in America awash in Crime...
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 09:42 PM
Tuesday

But The Guard is raking leaves instead of rounding up the perpetrators in The White House, Congress and the Judicial.
Two Americas, People.
Poo Tee Weet.

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