Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during an interview onCNN after she claimed that Republicans are hurting people by allowing health care subsidies to expire.
Greene has broken with Republican leadership in recent weeks over the government shutdown and President Donald Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which he promised to release while he was campaigning. For instance, Greene joined Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) at a press conference with Epstein's victims. She also criticized how Republicans have handled the shutdown on comedian Theo Von's podcast, "This Past Weekend."
On Wednesday, Greene called out Johnson in a post on X, saying, "he has ideas and pages of policy, but did not say a single policy plan" during the Republicans' weekly conference call.
"Republicans, it’s time to build the off-ramp off of Obamacare in a responsible way, deregulate healthcare and pharmaceuticals and demand price transparency across the board, and incentivize the market in such a way to open up competition which will drive down cost. Pick up your bat and ball and get in the game," Greene posted on X.
Johnson discussed Greene's comment on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday night.
"Bless her heart, that's an absurd statement," Johnson said. "These calls are obviously monitored by media, so we are not going to have actual strategy discussions on a line where you have hundreds of people listening in because it would be reported on the first page."
"Marjorie is not here in Washington; she is not on the committees of jurisdiction, and she's not in on those specific discussions, but she will be soon," he added.
Hollywood legend Robert De Niro, who has won two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe, is now just a "sad, broken old man," according to Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy.
De Niro, 82, teed off on Miller this week during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," comparing Miller to Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi politician who served as Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist and Reich Minister of Propaganda.
"We see it, we see it, we see it … all the time — he will not want to leave. He set it up with … I guess he’s the Goebbels of the cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a Nazi," De Niro said, in comments flagged by Newsweek.
"He is and [Miller’s] Jewish, and he should be ashamed of himself," De Niro said.
Miller has faced comparisons to Goebbels over his extreme rhetoric and political tactics that critics say echo fascist propaganda. Miller has used martyrdom during his speeches and smeared political foes as evil.
On Wednesday, the White House official melted down on Fox News and attacked De Niro in a lengthy rant.
"Robert De Niro is a sad, broken old man who is mostly enraged because he hasn't made anything worth watching in at least 30 years," railed Miller. "Probably the longest string of flops, failures, embarrassments — this man has been degrading himself on camera with one horrific film after another for my entire adult life, and he is not taken seriously by anybody. Not by his family, friends, not by his community."
Miller concluded, "He is a shell of a man and everybody disregards everything he says."
Miller: Robert De Niro is a sad, broken old man who is mostly enraged because he hasn't made anything worth watching in at least 30 years. Probably the longest string of flops, failures, embarrassments. This man has been degrading himself on camera with one horrific film after… pic.twitter.com/n5VDf1DEu7 — Acyn (@Acyn) October 23, 2025
A pair of Justice Department prosecutors who lost their jobs after working on special counsel Jack Smith's legal team investigating and charging President Donald Trump are back, having founded a new law firm to take on corruption, CBS News reported on Wednesday.
Smith's two legal cases against Trump, for election conspiracy over the 2020 coup plot and for illegally removing classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence, "were dropped when he won reelection in 2024, because under Justice Department policy, sitting presidents are not prosecuted," noted the report.
Soon after this happened, two prosecutors central to these cases, Molly Gaston and J.P. Cooney, "would lose their jobs once Mr. Trump took office in January. They were fired in a Trump administration purge of prosecutors associated with Smith and staff from the Justice Department's Public Integrity section, which has specialized in corruption cases in the 50 years since Watergate."
Gaston and Cooney, who were two of the most experienced public corruption prosecutors at the department, are now heading up a new project: an eponymous law firm that will seek to do much of the work they did in the government, from the outside.
This is seen as necessary, the report noted, because Trump's retribution purges have all but gutted the DOJ's public corruption unit.
"Justice Connection, an organization representing former agency employees, told CBS News it estimates the Justice Department's Public Integrity section has shrunk to just two full time attorneys, down from dozens in recent years," said the report. "Gaston and Cooney told CBS News they will also offer private legal services to clients who are the subject of investigations, including in congressional probes."
"Institutional relationships are crumbling right now," Gaston said to CBS. "It presents an opportunity and a need for the kind of services that we will provide to impartially and independently give advice and guidance."
The Rev. Tony Suárez, an evangelical pastor who once advised President Donald Trump and publicly backed his 2016 campaign, said Wednesday he no longer plans to endorse political candidates, citing frustration with divisive politics and the Trump administration’s hardline immigration stance.
Speaking at the Religion News Service symposium “God, Government and the Algorithm” in New York City, Suárez, vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, said he now hopes to focus on “policy, not personality.”
“I don’t know that I’ll endorse any more candidates after this go-round,” Suárez said, per a Religion News Service report.
“I’d like to talk more about concepts and ideas and policy more than, ‘How dare you vote for that man?’ or ‘How dare you vote for that woman?’”
Suárez, who has voted for Trump three times, said he once believed the president supported immigration reform. But he now blames White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller for policies that created fear in Hispanic churches.
“I don’t blame President Trump as much as I blame Stephen Miller,” he said. “I’m not a Stephen Miller fan. I’m very frustrated with him, and I hold him responsible for a lot of the ideology.”
The Tennessee pastor said both parties have failed Latino voters on immigration, accusing Democrats of “empty promises” and Republicans of refusing to “come to the table of reason.”
Suárez added that the supplicant attitude around Trump’s movement made him uncomfortable. “It becomes borderline idolatry,” he said. “I can’t participate in it.”
The wrongly deported migrant, now being charged with gang activity by the Trump administration, is seeking a subpoena of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and several other Justice Department officials as part of his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive prosecution.
The news was reported on Wednesday evening by Politico's Kyle Cheney, who provided a link to the filing in opposition to Kilmar Abrego Garcia's motion by the Justice Department.
"Defendant’s motion to compel now asks this Court to authorize an open-ended fishing expedition into internal governmental documents and communications that would never be subject to discovery in the normal course," read the filing. "He seeks such extraordinary and intrusive discovery, moreover, in furtherance of a claim of vindictive and selective prosecution that is meritless on its face: the relevant prosecutorial decision-maker, the Acting U.S. Attorney, has explained on the record that this prosecution was not brought for vindictive or discriminatory reasons."
Abrego, a Salvadoran immigrant living with his family in Maryland, was sent to the infamous CECOT megaprison in his birth country, despite a court order barring his deportation there. The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed he is affiliated with the transnational MS-13 criminal gang, which Abregon denies.
Initially, the administration sought to claim that it had no jurisdiction to force El Salvador to return Abrego to American soil, but after months of outcry over the case, it relented and moved to have him returned. Authorities then promptly charged him in a criminal case and vowed to deport him to a different country.
This month, the administration has tried to get a number of African countries with no connection to Abrego, including Uganda, Ghana, and Eswatini, to accept him, but so far, all have refused.
Michael Wolff plans to subpoena President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in the lawsuit he filed against the first lady on Tuesday, the reporter and Trump biographer said.
A legal threat against him by Melania Trump last week represented “exactly … what a SLAPP suit is,” Wolff said, going on to define “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” or intimidation suits, as weapons wielded by wealthy people saying, “We're suing you so you shut up.”
“That's against the law in New York state, to use the law for such purposes,” Wolff told the former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal and Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of the Legal AF podcast, on Wednesday.
“So last night, we went, we sued. We sued in court in New York, asking for a declaratory judgment, a judgment that says, ‘You can't do this.’
“And this process will give us now the right to call witnesses, subpoena power, and those witnesses might very well, will very well include Melania Trump and Donald Trump, and therefore afford me the opportunity to really have an in-depth discussion with them, under oath before a court reporter, about their relationship with … Jeffrey Epstein.”
Melania Trump’s threat to sue Wolff arose from comments he made on his Daily Beast podcast, Inside Trump’s Head, about how the first lady met her husband.
Pictures showing both Trumps with Epstein, the late financier and sex offender whose crimes and ties to powerful men are the subject of renewed and fierce attention, have long been discussed.
Wolff has spoken widely about interviews he conducted with Epstein in which Epstein’s long friendship with Donald Trump and their acrimonious falling out were discussed in depth.
Wolff has said Epstein showed him pictures of Trump in potentially embarrassing poses with young women. He also said he presumes the FBI now possesses such photos.
Epstein died in prison in 2019, when Trump was first in the White House. Authorities said the death was a suicide.
Six years on, intense speculation over the so-called “Epstein files” continues, stoked by the emergence of documents prominently including a suggestive 50th birthday poem and drawing from Trump, and by the publication of the autobiography of Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim who killed herself earlier this year.
“Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had this long, long, long friendship,” Wolff told Blumenthal and Popok. “Really a joined-by-the-hip friendship. So there will be a lot of questions” in court.
Blumenthal asked: “And there may be other witnesses called as well?”
Wolff said: “Yes … anyone who might have information about their relationship, Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Melania Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his circle.”
Referring to Epstein’s long-time partner, Blumenthal said: “You could call Ghislaine Maxwell, couldn’t you?”
“Oh, we certainly could,” Wolff said.
Maxwell's involvement in Epstein's affairs and links to men such as Britain's Prince Andrew are a major focus of Giuffre's memoir.
Recently, Maxwell was moved to a relatively comfortable federal facility after a controversial jailhouse interview with Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general who was previously Donald Trump’s lawyer.
Donald and Melania Trump vehemently deny wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. In August, the Beast withdrew a story about the Trumps and Epstein that was based on comments by Wolff.
“I'm very fond of The Daily Beast,” Wolff said, “… a young person in the office wrote an article based on the podcast that I did. And in fact incorrectly said that I said that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump … I didn’t say it and I don’t know … that he made the direct introduction.”
A spokesman for the first lady, Nick Clemens, recently said: “First Lady Melania Trump’s attorneys are actively ensuring immediate retractions and apologies by those who spread malicious, defamatory falsehoods. The true account of how the First Lady met President Trump is in her best-selling book, ‘Melania.’”
In that book, Melania Trump says she met Donald Trump at the Kit Kat Club in New York City in September 1998. Trump was with another woman but asked Melania out anyway, she writes.
On the Legal AF podcast, Blumenthal quoted recent remarks in which Donald Trump appeared to say he was behind his wife’s legal threats, saying he said he had “done pretty well on these lawsuits lately” and had told Melania to “go forward” because “Jeffrey Epstein has nothing to do with Melania and I introducing but they do that. They make up stories.”
Wolff said suing Melania was “not about defamation. This is about the effort, on the part of the Trumps, to shut people up. And it's an extraordinary effort.
“I don't know of any instance in the modern age where the President of the United States or the First Lady, in this instance basically they are one and the same, have sued the media … and they have done it now repeatedly, over and over and over again and … it has worked. It has chilled everybody's sense of safety in our business.
“… This is the White House in all its power, acting against the media and me … I'm hardly the media. I'm just a single writer.”
Though Wolff said “frankly, it is frightening” to take on the Trumps, he said he felt he did not have any alternative.
“Thinking this through, ‘How do I get this to go away,’ I just couldn't figure out a way, and also, I felt, well, you know, damn it. You know, there's a responsibility here. You got to do it now.”
Faced with the expense of mounting the suit, Wolff said he would probably ask for financial support from the public.
Wolff also noted that in 2018, Donald Trump tried to stop the publication of Fire and Fury, the first of Wolff’s four books on the president. When the publisher refused to blink, Wolff noted, Trump backed down.
President Donald Trump appears to be holding his vice president back from achieving his most "dangerous" goals, according to a former Republican analyst.
Ex-Republican analyst Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," said during a new podcast episode on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's lack of apparent ideology seems to be thwarting the culture war aims of Vance and other administration members like Russ Vought and Stephen Miller.
"Trump is the scariest because you do need a cult leader to successfully do a full toppling of democracy," Miller said. "But, just purely on an ideological standpoint, Trump tamps down what a lot of these guys want to do in various ways."
Reports indicate that Miller has been guiding the administration's immigration enforcement policies, which have become increasingly unpopular, according to public polls. Vought has also sought to implement a more conservative bent in the mainstream media by threatening the licenses of networks with shows that have criticized the president.
Miller's guest, Jon Favreau, co-host of "Pod Save America," noted that Trump's administration has "a bunch of f------ lunatics" like Vought and Miller, both of whom share an ideology with Vance that is "more dangerous" than Trump's.
"They're all f------ nerds, but they're very dangerous, and the ideology is much more dangerous than Trump's ideology, who you could say doesn't have an ideology," Favreau said.
President Donald Trump is trying to destroy everything about the government that functions for the people in order to reshape it in his image, former White House ethics expert turned States United Democracy Center chief Norm Eisen told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" in a highly animated tirade.
This comes as Trump moves to bulldoze the East Wing of the White House to make room for his massive, corporate-funded ballroom project, all in the middle of a federal government shutdown being waged over whether people will continue to have funding for health care.
"I think, in a very real way, that he doesn't care about the food lines that are happening," said anchor and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele. "The lines are happening at food banks around the country. He doesn't care about the impact that's coming because of the shutdown. We haven't even talked about what people are going to see when they get to Thanksgiving and going to the Christmas holidays. How does this translate, do you think, for the American people when they see the symbolism of the East Wing being torn down ... What do you think people are hearing and seeing out there?"
"I think the totality of it does penetrate," said Eisen. "We've seen poll after poll lately where Donald Trump is at historic approval ratings, down as low as 37 percent."
"When I worked in the White House — which I view as holy ground because of the lives that have been sacrificed for the American idea that that building represents — when I would walk in that East Wing that is so cruelly torn down, I would get chills at the history of what had happened in that building," he said, growing louder and more agitated. I do think the American people get the totality, and the thing that Donald Trump is doing, he's tearing down that building, but he's tearing down the human infrastructure. He's attacking the government employees in this shutdown."
This, he said, "is why we at the Democracy Defender Fund have gone to court. We've, with our partners, with the federal employee labor unions and other wonderful partners, we've gotten three trials. We got the latest one today to say you can't tear down the human infrastructure, you can't fire people. There's no legal basis to do it in a shutdown. He wants to inflict that same, same pain. That's not what America is about."
"So I do think you're seeing a public repudiation of Trump," he added. "And of course, we're going to have a referendum on him. New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention races. And I think you're going to see powerful repudiation."
Employee sues Ole Miss chancellor after being fired over Charlie Kirk posts
by Michael Goldberg, Mississippi Today October 22, 2025
A former University of Mississippi employee fired in September over social media commentary she reposted about the assassination of Charlie Kirk has filed a federal lawsuit against the university's chancellor, claiming he violated her First Amendment rights.
Lauren Stokes, a former executive assistant in the University of Mississippi's development office, said she was terminated over a social media post she endorsed on her private Instagram account about Kirk, the right-wing activist and CEO of the political organization Turning Point USA.
University of Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Boyce fired Stokes over speech that is constitutionally protected, even if it was offensive, her attorney argued in a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
"A private employer might require its employees to conform to a point of view but the state acting through its public university cannot," wrote attorney Allyson Mills. "After all, today's policed are tomorrow's policemen. No state institution should purport to wield such power."
Boyce was sued in both his personal and professional capacities. University of Mississippi spokesperson Jacob Batte told Mississippi Today the university does not comment on pending litigation.
On Sept. 10, Kirk was assassinated while speaking on a college campus in Utah. That night, Stokes reposted to her Instagram account a statement made by another person that lambasted Kirk's views on issues like guns, abortion and race.
“For decades, yt (white) supremacist and reimagined Klan members like Kirk have wreaked havoc on our communities, condemning children and the populace at large to mass death for the sake of keeping their automatic guns," the statement said. "They have willingly advocated to condemn children and adult survivors of (sexual assault) to forced pregnancy and childbirth. They have smiled while stating the reasons people who can birth children shouldn't be allowed life-saving medical care when miscarrying. They have incited and clapped for the brutalizing of Black and Brown bodies. So no, I have no prayers to offer Kirk or respectable statements against violence.”
The post generated immediate backlash for Stokes, who deleted the post and apologized hours after publishing it. That same night, Boyce happened to dine at a restaurant owned by Stokes and her husband, the complaint says.
By the next morning, a social media firestorm had kicked into high gear, with conservative activists and even some state leaders drawing Stokes's post to her employer's attention. That mirrored similar episodes around the country in the days after Kirk's killing.
Journalists and teachers have been fired for their comments on his death, with several conservative activists seeking to identify social media users whose posts about Kirk they viewed as offensive or celebratory.
The University of Mississippi placed Stokes on administrative leave around 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, according to the complaint.
A little under four hours later, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White, a vocal critic of what he calls “woke” initiatives in higher education, posted about the episode on X.
“To Ole Miss, did an Ole Miss employee just repost this insane reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder? Answer,” White wrote.
About an hour after that, university officials fired Stokes, according to her complaint. Then, 20 minutes later, Boyce released a statement that didn't name Stokes, but confirmed her firing and called her comments "hurtful" and "insensitive."
“The comments run completely counter to our institutional values of civility, fairness and respecting the dignity of each person,” Boyce said. “We condemn these actions and this staff member is no longer employed by the university.”
In Stokes's legal complaint, her attorney points out that the speech in question "related to a subject of obsessive news interest" and was not even hers, but someone else's that she reposted.
"By terminating Lauren for reposting the speech, the University says that Lauren is not allowed even to agree with a point of view held by a substantial portion of the nation," the complaint said. "Stated differently, the University says it gets to tell its employees what to think on matters of public concern. The interests in freedom of speech, indeed of thought, are extraordinarily high here."
Stokes said she has received death threats and bomb threats against her restaurant that forced it to close for two weeks. She is seeking damages, legal fees, and a declaration that Boyce violated her First Amendment rights.
The lawsuit was filed just over a week before Vice President J.D. Vance and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, will speak at the University of Mississippi in Oxford on Oct. 29.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump's Department of Justice of ignoring death threats against him, despite their pledge to actively pursue threats against elected officials, during an interview with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on Wednesday.
Swalwell said he has referred multiple people to the DOJ for threatening his life and the lives of his family members. He added that the DOJ sent him a letter saying they were not going to prosecute the cases.
"A couple of weeks ago, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the attorney general had put out on her social media that the administration will aggressively pursue any threats against elected officials, and I responded essentially saying that's not the case," Swalwell said. "We have a number of direct specific threats to me and my kids that have not been prosecuted, and we were sent letters saying they would not be prosecuted."
Swalwell's comments come at a time when multiple Trump critics have been criminally indicted. For instance, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on two charges of obstruction of justice and lying to Congress. New York Attorney General Letitia James was also indicted for allegedly committing mortgage fraud. Both Comey and James have denied the charges against them.
Swalwell added that Attorney General Pam Bondi has reached out and asked to "look at" the cases he submitted.
"I don't want to be treated any better or worse than anyone else, but my fear at this point is that because I have been a critic, and I am someone who holds the president accountable, is that the DOJ is simply not going after people who threaten me," Swalwell said.
The recent group chat scandals that rocked the Republican Party revealed the "hubris" living at the core of the party's communications, according to a new column.
David A. Graham argued in a new column for The Atlantic that the racist and xenophobic group text messages unearthed in recent reporting show that some Republicans pose "a serious security risk for the country" because they opt to communicate in unreliable systems like text messages or on the encrypted messaging app Signal.
"When you’re texting about your admiration for Hitler, the danger is less about national security and more about job security," Graham wrote. "There’s no good place to call yourself a Nazi, but there are less risky ones. If you’re doing it in person with your edgelord friends, at least you’re not leaving a paper trail."
"Doing it where someone can easily screenshot your messages and send them to a reporter (two members of the Young Republican chat blamed internal rivalries for the leak) is much dumber," he added.
Even though the texts may generate backlash, Graham notes that few, if any, Republican officials will punish the people who wrote them.
"Republican figures are texting as though they have impunity because by many measures, they do," he argued. "Perversely, these stories may simply reinforce for some of them that everyone is texting the same things they are, and that they won’t face major consequences for doing so."
"If they get caught, they don’t need to apologize or change careers," he continued. "They can just tap out a simple 'lol, oops' and then return to what they were doing."
The Trump administration launched another military strike on a purported drug trafficking boat on Tuesday night, and for the first time expanded its campaign of extrajudicial killing to the Pacific Ocean.
In a social media post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that President Donald Trump had authorized “a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a designated terrorist organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.” Hegseth also said that the strike killed two passengers aboard the vessel.
This marks at least the eighth time the US military has attacked a purported drug-trafficking boat, although the previous seven strikes took place in the Caribbean. Collectively, the strikes have killed at least 34 people.
In the wake of the latest boat attack, many Trump critics once again slammed the administration for carrying out what they described as acts of murder.
Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer at The Atlantic, described the attack as “another unlawful extrajudicial killing of a boat our military could have stopped and investigated.”
Friedersdorf also emphasized that these killings would be unlawful even if the people on the boats were involved in narcotics trafficking.
“Even when convicted drug smugglers go to court, they don’t get the death penalty,” he wrote. “This is immoral.”
Kenneth Roth, former executive director for Human Rights Watch, tore apart the administration’s legal argument for treating alleged drug smuggling as an act of war by a hostile foreign power.
“Trump’s rationale for his repeated murders at sea don’t hold water,” he wrote in a post on X. “There is no ‘self-defense’ because no one is attacking the United States. There is no 'armed conflict' because there are no hostilities approaching a war.”
Jill Wine-Banks, former Watergate prosecutor and US general counsel of the Army, warned in a post on Bluesky about the dangers of further widening Trump’s bombing campaign.
“He must be stopped,” she wrote. “This is illegal and endangers America.”
Journalist Mark Jacob said he was highly skeptical that the administration was carrying out these attacks to stop the flow of drugs into the US.
“The Trump regime lies all the time,” he wrote on Bluesky. “A more likely explanation for these attacks is US imperialism: Trump wants to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela (with vast oil reserves) and intimidate Colombia (which criticized previous attacks).”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro this past weekend said that the Trump administration had “committed a murder” after one of its boat attacks killed a Colombian citizen named Alejandro Carranza, who had been out on a fishing trip when the US military attacked his boat.
Trump responded by baselessly calling Petro “an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs,” while also levying new tariffs against Colombia.
President Donald Trump's controversial new Eastern District of Virginia federal prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, is coming under scrutiny yet again for recruiting prosecutors from other states to join her cases against the president's political critics.
"Once again, Lindsey Halligan has to turn to out-of-state prosecutors, this time for the Letitia James case," wrote Politico's Kyle Cheney, providing a screenshot of a new filing. "Roger Keller is a Missouri-based prosecutor. Two NC-based prosecutors are handling the Comey case for her as well. No one from EDVA in either case."
Halligan, who was installed as a federal prosecutor despite little experience in that field after Trump pushed out a seasoned veteran prosecutor who didn't find his retributive cases viable, is currently running cases against FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Legal experts have widely panned both cases as politically motivated and unsound, particularly as she has made basic errors in her filings before the court. But even more flocked to register their astonishment that Halligan continues to be unable to find prosecutors working in her own office willing to sign off on what she's doing.
"One former prosecutor suggested to me that Lindsay Halligan enlisted NC-based federal prosecutors to handle the Comey case because EDNC is within the same federal appellate circuit. But Missouri?" wroteMSNBC legal expert Lisa Rubin.
"She couldn't prosecute a ham sandwich," wrote attorney and legal commentator Tracey Gallagher.
"Last time I checked there is not a shortage of attorneys in Virginia so it seems to suggest DOJ may be struggling to find attorneys willing to risk their law license to get involved in these vindictive prosecutions," wrote Mediaite editor and University of Florida Law graduate Sarah Rumpf.
