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Susan Ottignon's avatar

Thanks for sharing Balko’s quote on nixing the term “cover up” in MN for it’s truly a culture (and regime) which shows “you can get away with anything.”🤬💩🤡 For Eastern District — bottom line Halligan is out — The End (for now). Kudos for your work👍👏💥

Victoria Brown's avatar

Thank you David.

Runfastandwin's avatar

These judges do nothing but bloviate to hear themselves bloviate. Until they put people in jail nothing will change.

Manqueman's avatar

A borderline defense of the judiciary: Mixed is better than anyone else among our leadership elite.

Lance Khrome's avatar

Well, despite all the kerfuffle and backing-and-filling by federal judges, Ms Halligan has decamped from her EDVA office, according to the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/virginia-us-attorney-halligan.html?nl=the-morning&segment_id=213996

Justice is done, but of course in the trump era, it's always a struggle, and many times the good guys don't win outright, but in this case, a manifestly unfit person is sent packing, so, two cheers for that.

SandyG's avatar

Could someone please answer for me? Don't subpoenas have to be signed by a judge? If so, if it's a baseless and corrupt DOJ “investigation” why is the judge signing it?

David Kurtz's avatar

Generally, federal judges do not have to sign off on grand jury subpoenas in criminal cases (or on subpoenas in civil cases).