{"id":142284,"date":"2026-01-20T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/20\/chief-judge-solicits-us-attorney-applications-to-fill-halligans-vacancy-in-eastern-district-of-va\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:55:30","slug":"chief-judge-solicits-us-attorney-applications-to-fill-halligans-vacancy-in-eastern-district-of-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/20\/chief-judge-solicits-us-attorney-applications-to-fill-halligans-vacancy-in-eastern-district-of-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Judge Solicits US Attorney Applications to Fill Halligan’s Vacancy in Eastern District of Va."},"content":{"rendered":"

“If a person wishes to be considered for possible appointment under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 546(d) as the Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, that person shall complete and submit to the Clerk of the Court … the Confidential Expression of Interest in Serving as the Interim Court-Appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,” U.S. District Chief Judge M. Hannah Lauck of the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in an order, citing Lindsey Halligan’s expired term as the district’s interim top prosecutor. Halligan left the office in the wake of the order, media reports said.<\/p>\n

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“If a person wishes to be considered for possible appointment under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 546(d) as the Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, that person shall complete and submit to the Clerk of the Court … the Confidential Expression of Interest in Serving as the Interim Court-Appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,” U.S. District Chief Judge M. Hannah Lauck of the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in an order, citing Lindsey Halligan’s expired term as the district’s interim top prosecutor. Halligan left the office in the wake of the order, media reports said.<\/p>\n

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“If a person wishes to be considered for possible appointment under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 546(d) as the Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, that person shall complete and submit to the Clerk of the Court … the Confidential Expression of Interest in Serving as the Interim Court-Appointed United States Attorney for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/legal-news-P40SRD.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}