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malaise

(289,990 posts)
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 08:46 PM Oct 1

Holy Shit - the Comey indictment is invalid [View all]

and the statute of limitations ran out at midnight yesterday.
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/re-was-lindsey-halligan-validly-appointed-as-united-states-attorney/

1. There are two general authorities for filling a U.S. Attorney vacancy and two avenues under each authority.

One authority is section 546 of Title 28. Section 546 authorizes the Attorney General to appoint an interim U.S. Attorney for a term of 120 days. Under section 546(d), once the 120-day term expires, “the district court for such district may appoint a United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled.”

An individual who has been validly appointed pursuant to section 546 holds the office of U.S. Attorney, even though only on an interim basis. That individual may properly be referred to as United States Attorney or interim United States Attorney, but it would be wrong to refer to that person as acting United States Attorney.
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This is madness on steroids.

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Clown show continues ALBliberal Oct 1 #1
The full circus malaise Oct 1 #2
Hahaha! SheltieLover Oct 1 #4
Seriously malaise Oct 1 #5
What has this regeime done that is legal? SheltieLover Oct 1 #6
Diddly-Squat some_of_us_are_sane Oct 1 #8
I was going to say both of his swearing ins, but the I realized IbogaProject Oct 1 #17
K&R for, needing clarification/enlightenment at my low lay level UTUSN Oct 1 #3
Re: Was Lindsey Halligan Validly Appointed as United States Attorney bigtree Oct 1 #13
Thanks, will digest. UTUSN Oct 1 #15
She was not appointed properly, gab13by13 Oct 1 #7
Thanks malaise Oct 1 #9
From now on, you're my lawyer man! surfered Oct 1 #10
Hehehe malaise Oct 1 #12
🙏 pardon me ma'am. surfered Oct 2 #19
LOL malaise Oct 2 #20
I used to think they were evil geniuses and tried to imagine their plan, now I just realized they have mainly idiots Shellback Squid Oct 1 #11
Idiots on steroids malaise Oct 1 #14
When will this become Biden's fault? yonder Oct 1 #16
It's chaos. Iggo Oct 1 #18
Omg BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 2 #21
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