When Donald Trump replaced US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert with Lindsey Halligan recently, he made no secret of her job responsibilities: Go after Adam Schiff, Letitia James, and James Comey. “We can’t delay any longer,” the president wrote in a social media post to his attorney general, Pam Bondi, noting that “Lindsey Halligan is a really good lawyer.”

Halligan is expected to fulfill her boss’s demands: Though prosecutors reportedly advised against charging Comey for lack of probable cause, she is expected to indict the former FBI director in the coming days.

That should satisfy Trump, who has long nursed a grudge against Comey over the Russia investigation that loomed over the opening of his first term. But it could also open up Halligan to

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