My favorite part of the opinion that removed Halligan as Acting US Attorney

[LetMyPeopleVote]

You should never go out of your way to piss off a Federal Judge. Halligan and the DOJ filed to a response to a federal judge on the question of whether it was legal or appropriate for Halligan to claim to be an action US Attorney that was very rude. The judge called these assholes out for this filing



This is also my favorite part of this opinion

My favorite part of Judge Novak's ruling on Lindsey Halligan is that basically she's too dumb to disbar.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-01-21T17:34:37.362Z

This opinion will haunt Halligan for the rest of her career.

[Irish_Dem]

1. I don't understand legalese, but I do understand someone just got squashed like a bug.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. You are correct

[SheltieLover]

2. Shame the judge refrained from referring her for investigation & disciplinary action imo.

[orleans]

10. i was thinking the same thing (only you sound less pissed off than my thought), wondering

why the fuck the judge did that.

[SheltieLover]

11. Oh I'm plenty pissed

Trying to keep bp in a healthy range.

[orleans]

24. lol. is it working? i still haven't figured out how to do that.

the bp meds help so i rage away every now and then

[SheltieLover]

25. It works when I ignore that which I have no control over

[Simeon Salus]

3. This opinion will become the basis of her new program on Newsmax

Wingnut welfare is a thing.

[tanyev]

7. Intro voiceover: "I was a terrible lawyer, so now I'm playing one on TV."

[efhmc]

4. What career?

[MadameButterfly]

15. In the MAGAshpere

she will find one. And she has the look they like.

[Tadpole Raisin]

5. I agree. But I really would have liked it if the judge also said

“however I cannot give the same deference to the US AG or Assistant AG and have therefore forwarded both of them for disciplinary action.”

Courts have MORE than bent over to the insults and illegalities of this DOJ. It’s time to give them notice that if lawyers pull any more BS they risk their license.

Disobeying court orders, not showing up or not showing up prepared, misrepresenting court findings in their appeals, outright lying..

It only stops when you make it stop. I don’t care how much they spent on their education, their previous reputation, or the needs of their families. One screw up and you warn them. They WILL be referred. No wonder the Felon thinks democracies are so easy to bully. They are!!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. For some reason they wanted their own stooge as DC Attorney

It's what you would want if you planned cases against Congress members, and let's not forget several have been targeted already. Comey and James cases were a test run.

[appmanga]

26. But the grand and petit juries in D.C. are answering the abuse...

...by not indicting and, for those indicted, not convicting. Protests matter, and jury nullification is another form of protest and disobedience. It should be happening in more places.

[FakeNoose]

8. I wish he had pulled her law license

... she deserved as much. By allowing her to resign, the Judge let her off easy.

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. But that would be actual consequences. Do we even do that anymore?

[appmanga]

27. The judge has no ability to pull her law license...

...but he can make a referral to her state bar for her to be sanctioned or disbarred.

[patphil]

9. Translation: She was a perfect Trump pick for the role, that is to say totally unqualified.

I would say position rather than role, but his whole administration is simply performance art as far as I'm concerned.
And it's been a pretty bad performance.
So, role it is.

[Ocelot II]

28. Totally unqualified, and with a Mar-A-Lago face and ample "kidneys."

The perfect Trump minion.

[malaise]

12. I like the...

at this time part of it. She may well be disbarred at another time😀

[malthaussen]

18. The implication is that *when* she steps out of line again (and she will)...

... the Court will come down on her like a ton of bricks. Which would be delightful if true, but I'm not holding my breath.

Anything else is just finger-wagging, which is all anyone with any real power or authority seems to do.

-- Mal

[malaise]

19. The Supremes are about to rein him in

Very soon

[malthaussen]

20. "Very soon" like when the GOP will issue their comprehensive health plan. n/t

[malaise]

21. Sooner

Watch the ride😀

[paleotn]

13. "Para-lawyers" The whole lot of them.

Is there some dumbed down version of the Bar this wankers passed? Or is there a "knee pad" option?

[Bev54]

16. IT seems that most of Trump's picks for all positions including ICE and cabinet members

are all cos-playing their roles. They are so bitterly unqualified they are all playing what they may have seen in a movie or tv show or their own empty mind visions.

[H2O Man]

31. Exactly.

In his first administration, he did have some guard rails. Not people I liked, but some that understood how the system is supposed to work. Of course, they tended to get fired.

This time the administration is a group of court jesters. None of them has a grasp of governing. It is the most unqualified group in any administration in our country's history. Stephen Miller is evil, and largely runs the administration.

It is a strange combination of hilarious and terrifying. I talk with people in Europe daily. The administration scared the heck out of the children in Greenland. That is cruel. But they don't care. Rather, people like Miller delight in causing suffering among "others."

There needs to be an intervention. From the grassroots to the House and Senate, we need to recover our country.

[NBachers]

17. "Go swim in the small pond, little polliwog."

[Klarkashton]

22. Thus guaranteeing a TV show on Fox for years to come.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[H2O Man]

30. Holy shit!

That is one for the history books! Sometimes with the best judges, you can read between the lines ..... sometimes a sentence or phrase seems to have levels of meaning. Not here!

Thank you so much for this!

Obviously recommended.