The Virginia State Bar is the latest watchdog to turn tail and run rather than deal with the crime spree that is President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.

The bar, which theoretically investigates ethics complaints against attorneys and can discipline or disbar them, decided it didn’t really want to investigate one particular attorney: the not-at-all-illustrious Lindsey Halligan.

Why not? Well, because a complaint about Halligan potentially lying to the grand jury to nab indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James is somehow not an ethics issue but a problem for the courts.

“Whether criminal indictments were obtained through material misrepresentations of fact and done for political purposes falls within the authority of the court t

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