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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,697 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 04:39 PM Nov 2025

Heading for legal loss in Comey case, Halligan makes misleading public case against the judge

Things are going badly for Lindsey Halligan in court. The myriad ways the James Comey case can be dismissed pretrial are mounting.

Apparently having seen the writing on the wall after a rough hearing Wednesday, Halligan attempted to make her case in the media against the presiding judge, Biden-appointee Michael Nachmanoff.

“Lindsey Halligan fires back at James Comey judge who claimed she’s a ‘puppet,’” read a New York Post headline Wednesday evening, following the hearing that revealed the Trump-installed prosecutor may have improperly indicted the former FBI director. “Personal attacks — like Judge Nachmanoff referring to me as a ‘puppet’ — don’t change the facts or the law,” Halligan told The Post.

Reading her lament out of context, it might look like a noble prosecutor laudably undeterred by the ranting of a rogue judge hell-bent on gratuitously attacking her personally for the crime of doing her job.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/heading-legal-loss-comey-case-182724038.html

Taking a cue from big Donny, I guess. Truth is there's no better way to lose a trial than to antagonize the presiding judge.

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Heading for legal loss in Comey case, Halligan makes misleading public case against the judge (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 OP
That's a good way to get disbarred. no_hypocrisy Nov 2025 #1
Pissing of the judge you are appearing before is not a good legal tactic Jersey Devil Nov 2025 #2
JUST like her POS boss....not a leg to stand on so.... democratsruletheday Nov 2025 #3
Sadly Timewas Nov 2025 #4

Jersey Devil

(10,833 posts)
2. Pissing of the judge you are appearing before is not a good legal tactic
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:01 PM
Nov 2025

The judge will always keep his/her cool while pulling the skin off your body in a very respectful manner.

I expect a dismissal with prejudice for a variety of reasons and think the only thing holding that up is that it takes time to write a legal opinion. So I say if not today, then Monday.

democratsruletheday

(1,880 posts)
3. JUST like her POS boss....not a leg to stand on so....
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:03 PM
Nov 2025

attack the judge. She's worse than Trump. She knows exactly what he is and still licks his boots.

Timewas

(2,739 posts)
4. Sadly
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:24 PM
Nov 2025

Both the executive and judicial branches of our government are circuses,and the legislative branch is running around in a clown suit with a silly box and a horn going toot toot..........

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