00:00One of President Trump's hand-picked prosecutors is now out of a top job just hours after a federal
00:09judge called her bid to stay in office a charade. Attorney General Pam Bondi says Lindsay Halligan
00:15has left the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia after a judge
00:20barred her from calling herself U.S. Attorney and warned she was defying a binding court order.
00:27Bondi announced Halligan's departure late Tuesday on social media, calling it a significant loss
00:32and blaming Virginia's two Democratic senators for blocking her confirmation. Earlier in the day,
00:38U.S. District Judge David Novak shut down Halligan's continued use of the U.S. Attorney title,
00:44saying in an 18-page ruling it may not continue and calling it a false statement made in direct
00:49defiance of the court, writing, quote, in short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the
00:56United States Attorney must come to an end. Halligan was installed last fall and quickly
01:01indicted former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Cases later
01:07tossed out after another judge ruled her appointment unconstitutional. The Justice Department has
01:13appealed, but Novak said that ruling still stands as the law of the district. The court had already
01:19begun seeking applicants to replace Halligan after her 120-day interim term expired on Tuesday.
