A separate judge had ruled that Halligan, who brought cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, was unlawfully appointed.

A federal judge Tuesday ordered Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why she continues to call herself the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia even though another judge determined in November that she had been unlawfully appointed to the position.

U.S. District Judge David Novak of Richmond issued a three-page order demanding to know why Halligan is still serving in the post. Halligan, who unsuccessfully prosecuted former FBI Direct James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, is also referred to as U.S. attorney by the Justice Department in official documents.

The judge’s order is unusual because he issued it on his own, not at the request of defense attorneys. It came in a case involving a carjacking and attempted bank robbery suspect who was indicted last month.

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        Yeah they do, it’s the one Ghislaine Maxwell is in. The one that’s basically a regular house that you can’t leave.

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          Tbf she’s not actually wealthy. Her father was at one point, but his business empire collapsed into debt. She’s just a heiress with no inheritance who had lots of connections with wealthy people.

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              That’s not all that rich. Which is probably why she’s in prison.

              Where I live, a single family home costs well over a million dollars. Two million in a “nice” neighborhood. Take the rest of that and put it in a diversified brokerage account, you can probably make enough each month to live as if you had a regular middle class job but without working. I wouldn’t call that “rich.” That’s basically just early retirement.

              Sure would be nice though.

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                If she’s got a penny, she’s got millions squirrelled away somewhere. She was Epstein for years, and he had billions. Surely he siphoned some to her as well. And a guy like Epstein definitely knows how to hide money in Cayman, or Bahamian, or Swiss, etc. banks.

                There’s a whole other branch of the Epstein case that is seldom mentioned: the financial case. There’s an investigation into the money trails, and that’s could lead to more actionable information than all the gossipy stuff we’ve seen so far.

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    The answer is clear: the regime does not abide by laws or court rulings - the US has now abandoned even the appearance of being a constitutional state. If US citizens have a problem with this, they should rise up against all the corruption and all the crimes. However, since they are not doing so, we will continue to read news stories like this.

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      You have any resources for us to use to “rise up”? Guns, ammo, money, volunteer time? Otherwise you are spreading useless rhetoric like everyone else and this needs to stop, not escalate.

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        Organize a general strike. Bring the country to a standstill until you get rid of this regime while you still can. Don’t put it off and don’t complain because it causes you economic difficulties. The reason is simple: if you don’t act now, you will end up in a dictatorship - and then things will get much worse.

        Source: I am German, perhaps you know our history.

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          Sigh…

          I wish people better understood the logistics of a general strike.

          For the record my people were forced off their land by the US government almost 200 years ago in an event called the Trail of Tears. This has always been a dictatorship for some.

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            I’m sorry for your people, but the statement still stands. Life will only get worse for all people who are not white - and even for white people, as long as they are not rich. Unfortunately, that’s how it is with tyrants.

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              Yeah but a general strike has less than a snowballs chance in hell of ever succeeding. Succession or even just fucking killing these people would be unironically easier than doing a general strike because with those the most you need is state level support or a particularly well armed lynch mob.

              The fact of the matter is you will never see a general strike within the territory of the United States so long as it stands.

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                Well, that’s true, and that’s why US citizens are so absurdly exploited and ruled by a child molester who gets away with everything he does with impunity - this is the true American spirit.