Before FBI Director James Comey heads to trial in January over charges of lying to Congress, his team plans to put the prosecutors — and specifically President Donald Trump’s handpicked interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan — on the defensive.

Trump’s effort to turn the Justice Department into his personal legal weapon shatters norms of law-enforcement independence inculcated in the decades since Watergate, and arguably outstrips any previous abuses of the department at any other point in American history.

President Donald Trump says he intends to nominate one of his former defense attorneys, Lindsey Halligan, to lead a key federal prosecutor's office in Virginia.

An ethics professor from Halligan’s law school warns that if she pursues charges against the former FBI director without probable cause, she could be disciplined by the Florida bar.

Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and a fierce ally of President Donald Trump, has taken over as the top federal prosecutor in Virginia’s eastern district, according to a person familiar with the change.

Donald Trump’s beauty queen prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, made an embarrassing typo in the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Halligan, who serves as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, is assigned to the case against James, a longtime target of the president.

Former Watergate attorney Nick Akerman told Newsweek moments before former FBI director James Comey ’s arraignment on Wednesday, that the Department of Justice’s prosecuting attorney in the case, Lindsey Halligan, is “playing a pretty dangerous game here in terms of her law license.”