“The court’s thinly veiled threat to use attorney discipline to cudgel the executive branch into conforming its legal position in all criminal prosecutions to the views of a single district judge is a gross abuse of power and an affront to the separation of powers,” U.S. Department of Justice officials said in a mandatory court filing defending Lindsey Halligan’s continued identification as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
“The court’s thinly veiled threat to use attorney discipline to cudgel the executive branch into conforming its legal position in all criminal prosecutions to the views of a single district judge is a gross abuse of power and an affront to the separation of powers,” U.S. Department of Justice officials said in a mandatory court filing defending Lindsey Halligan’s continued identification as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
