Trump Names Wildly Unqualified Lawyer [View all]

Lindsey Halligan, the new US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has no experience as a prosecutor

Noah Lanard
Dan Friedman

... Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, had extensive experience. He is listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, a 36-year-old former Florida insurance lawyer, has worked on only three.

But for an administration in which loyalty reigns supreme, what matters is whom Halligan represented in each of those federal cases: Trump.

The decision to make Halligan one of the country’s top prosecutors is a major escalation in Trump’s efforts to weaponize the Justice Department. Halligan, who was previously tasked with helping to rid the Smithsonian Institution of “improper ideology,” was sworn in on an interim basis Monday. Her predecessor, Siebert, had been installed by Trump in January and officially nominated by the president in May. He was forced out after he declined to bring charges against two of Trump’s enemies: New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey ...

Halligan joins other underqualified appointees using top prosecutorial positions ...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/the-wildly-unqualified-lawyer-trump-just-named-to-prosecute-his-enemies/