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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Virginia suggested Tuesday that Lindsey Halligan should resign as U.S. attorney after a ruling declared her appointment unlawful, making her the third jurist to challenge Halligan’s continued claim to the post.

Halligan was handpicked by President Donald Trump to oversee the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia after career prosecutors there resisted pressure to bring criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James , the attorney general of New York.

Once appointed to the job, Halligan quickly secured indictments of both, but a federal judge dismissed those indictments on procedural grounds in November, ruling that the Trump administration had violated t

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