As Lindsey Halligan was driving back to the Washington, DC, area Monday, Trump’s handpicked US attorney to run the Alexandria, Virginia, office was trying to figure out whether she still had a job. Attorney General Pam Bondi called her directly, but offered no clarity, a source familiar with the call told CNN.

Earlier that day, while Halligan was visiting a prosecutors’ office in her district nearly two hours south in Richmond, a federal judge determined she was unlawfully serving in the position. The Justice Department, the judge found, had already used up the 120-day period set aside for interim US attorneys before their nominations by the president must be evaluated by the Senate.

The judge, Cameron McGowan Currie, therefore determined the indictment against former FBI Director James

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