Harry Litman - "There is no indictment"
In my previous Substack, I wrote that Monday of this week was Lindsey Halligan’s worst day to date—which was already saying something—and that it pointed to far worse ones still to come. I could not have anticipated that the first of those far worse days would arrive quite so soon—yesterday, to be precise.
I was in the courtroom for the argument before Judge Michael Nachmanoff on former FBI Director James Comey’s motion to dismiss the case because it was a reprisal prosecution brought at President Trump’s command out of personal antagonism toward Comey.
As Halligan looked on from counsel table, one of her assistants, Tyler Lemons, tried his best to argue that whatever incendiary rhetoric Trump served up against Comey, the actual decision was made by Halligan and the grand jury. In legal terms, the administration was opposing Comey’s motion by arguing that Trump’s obvious animus was not the cause of the indictment.
Nachmanoff pressed the government lawyer about how Halligan could have been the decisionmaker when she came to the case only a few days before she sought the indictment.
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/there-is-no-indictment
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