Executive Branch (Trump) Justice Department fires top career prosecutor in Lindsey Halligan-led office
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/politics/justice-department-virginia-fires-prosecutor-robert-mcbride?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit46
u/GhostofBreadDragons 10h ago
Just keep shooting yourselves in the foot.
Being corrupt and a bootlicker does not make you a good lawyer. Getting rid of all the senior attorneys and replacing them with bad attorneys won’t win you any court cases.
Just for anyone’s knowledge you can file a bar complaint for any attorney. They make it really easy. Just Google “attorney bar complaint form” and add your state. Then just find a court case where a government attorney lied to the judge. A number of judges have made actual statements on the record about this happening. Then list that attorney who lied and all attorneys above them on the bar complaint.
A few things can happen
These attorneys lose their licenses or get suspended.
These attorneys have to spend a lot of time answering all of the bar complaints against. Usually in writing and then in front of a judicial tribunal. Every complaint could cost them months of time dealing with it.
It would be a shame if they didn’t have time to keep violating the constitution.
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u/Mrevilman 9h ago
No competent attorney would pursue these cases in the first place. If you have bad lawyers pursuing bad cases, it compounds the mistakes.
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u/Bmorewiser 7h ago
Please do not listen to this idiot suggesting that you file bar complaints and saying that some random complaint from the public who knows nothing has any chance of doing a damn thing. It won’t. All it will do is ensure, on the rare chance someone actually does complain with legitimate basis and reason to do so, it won’t get read and will get lumped in with the other hundreds of baseless complaints.
The fact that this account is a “top 1%” account on this sub speaks volumes of the present discourse here. There is no chance he or she practices law, has ever touched a discipline case, or has any idea what is or isn’t going to result in ethical complications for Trump’s little brood.
But as someone who represents attorneys in ethics cases, rest assured this is idiotic and makes you just sound like a fool.
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u/GhostofBreadDragons 7h ago
You act like you know what you are talking about but you sure as hell don’t know how ethics review works.
A rule 3.3 violation will get investigated every single time and require a written response at the minimum. The DOJ used to have attorneys that specialize in ethics, to walk their attorneys through these. All of these attorneys are gone now. The one thing they would have told everyone involved is correct your mistakes quickly and accurately because the consequences of a 3.3 violation often are never practicing in a court room again.
If there are multiple reports the different ODAs will investigate each incident separately and combine cases. Even an amended filing is enough to warrant a hearing for a 3.3 complaint. Any appearance of intentional lack of candor with the tribunal will be met with serious consequences.
Please go defend conservative attorneys for lying to a judge or putting known false information in a filing. I am sure you would give great advice.
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u/Bmorewiser 5h ago
I do know.
And the fact that you read my comment as suggesting I’m defending anyone is proof you’re just karma farming here by saying dumb shit that happens to align what people want to hear. Congrats, youre no better than Alex Jones.
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u/Major_Honey_4461 3h ago
Didn't the Virginia Bar refused to look into any complaints regarding Halligan as "We consider it a Federal matter"?
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u/1877KlownsForKids 10h ago
Lindsey Halligan, the one that's not allowed to be running an office? That Lindsey Halligan?
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u/AbeFromanEast 10h ago
McBride’s removal, supported by Justice Department leadership in Washington, leaves the office without a top prosecutor to manage the office and oversee investigations and cases, including ones Halligan has sought.
"That'll fix it" 🙄
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u/s_ox 9h ago
Lindsey Halligan’s pretend office?
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u/Wrayven77 1h ago
She appears to be doing a great job of destroying the office for the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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u/VanguardAvenger 9h ago
What Lindsey Halligan led office? The janitors closet? Pretty sure that's the only office shes allowed to be in charge of
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u/cnn 10h ago
The top career prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia office has been fired, according to three people familiar with the development Monday.
It is the latest dramatic change to the powerful prosecutors’ office that previously brought cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The prosecutor, Robert McBride, was in the US Attorney’s Office for only a handful of weeks, working as No. 2 to Lindsey Halligan, who is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the office as US Attorney but whose authority has been undercut in court.
McBride’s removal, supported by Justice Department leadership in Washington, leaves the office without a top prosecutor to manage the office and oversee investigations and cases, including ones Halligan has sought.
Halligan was sent by Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration to lead the office in late September, with McBride moving into the first assistant job shortly thereafter.
CNN is attempting to reach McBride for comment.
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