Attorney General Pam Bondi denounced federal judges in Alexandria, Virginia, on Monday, saying that that they had launched an “unconscionable campaign of bias and hostility” against Lindsey Halligan, who was lately stripped of her US lawyer title.
The assertion from Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, posted on X, comes as judges in the Eastern District of Virginia criticized the Justice Department for persevering with to listing Halligan on courtroom paperwork.
NCS first reported that two Justice of the Peace judges and a district courtroom decide instructed prosecutors in open courtroom that they didn’t consider Halligan’s title must be on new prison case filings, akin to responsible plea paperwork and indictments.
Halligan and different prosecutors in the workplace are “simply doing their jobs,” Bondi and Blanche stated, and “do not deserve to have their reputations questioned in court for ethically advocating on behalf of their client.”
“We will continue fighting for public safety in courtrooms across the country, and we will not be deterred by rogue judges who fail to live up to their obligations of impartiality because of their own political views,” the assertion added. “The American people, and the people of the Eastern District of Virginia, deserve nothing less.”
It comes after Judge Cameron McGowan Currie decided Halligan was not the US attorney final month as a result of she hadn’t been Senate confirmed after 120 days of a emptiness in the submit nor sworn in by the judges of the courtroom.
McGowan Currie’s determination additionally dismissed the prison circumstances against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, discovering Halligan’s work on them “void.”
In the circumstances, Comey had pleaded not guilty to mendacity to Congress whereas James had pleaded not guilty to mortgage fraud.
“This Department of Justice has no tolerance for undemocratic judicial activism,” the Justice Department assertion added.