{"id":142363,"date":"2026-01-21T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/21\/halligans-exit-could-doom-doj-appeals-in-comey-and-james-cases-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:13:32","slug":"halligans-exit-could-doom-doj-appeals-in-comey-and-james-cases-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/21\/halligans-exit-could-doom-doj-appeals-in-comey-and-james-cases-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Halligan’s Exit Could Doom DOJ Appeals in Comey and James Cases, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindsey Halligan’s expired service as interim U.S. attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia raises questions over whether the U.S. Department of Justice has a live case or controversy to continue its pending appeal seeking to revive criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, according to legal experts.<\/p>\n

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Lindsey Halligan’s expired service as interim U.S. attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia raises questions over whether the U.S. Department of Justice has a live case or controversy to continue its pending appeal seeking to revive criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, according to legal experts.<\/p>\n

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Lindsey Halligan’s expired service as interim U.S. attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia raises questions over whether the U.S. Department of Justice has a live case or controversy to continue its pending appeal seeking to revive criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, according to legal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142364,"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-142363","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-hys6b6.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142363","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=142363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}