Ankush Khardori: James and Comey’s Lawyers Say That Lindsey Halligan Cannot Serve in a Position ‘That’s Already Been Filled’

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WITT: “Join me now ankle a former federal prosecutor, now senior writer with political magazine and coos welcome my friend. So on what basis are they claiming that halligan was unlawfully appointed.”

KHARDORI: “Oh well, there’s a sort of complex set of provisions that govern when who serves with there’s. Not a Senate, confirmed the us attorney and involves a particular statutory provisions, very good vacancy act, but the upshot of it is that Trump has not had it confirmed to us attorney in the eastern district of Virginia. He had one serving as and other syndrome Eric sieber. He served four hundred 20 days and then left now under the relevant provisions. One interpretation is that you can only as a president have one person serving in that interim position and that Trump is exhausted, that with siebert and that the next to us attorney needs either to be Senate, confirmed or appointed by the judges of the district court under the relevant provisions. Now, if that is correct, amount of the argument that lawyers for James and coming that making than halligan cannot be serving in it’s position right because she’s trying to fill a slot, that’s already been filled.”