In the Most Nonpartisan Way Possible, Let Me Say Trump-Appointed Proscutor Lindsey Halligan is the Kind of Attorney Who Can Fight My Battles Anytime

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From the outset, as I wade into Amazon river waters filled with candiru, the tiny fish that will swim up your urine stream and embed itself inside your penis, let me point out that I'm not taking sides in any legal issues here. When it comes to whether or not former FBI Director James Comey should have been indicted on criminal charges, I leave to the judicial system. 

That headline wasn't an endorsement of any position or to even suggest I have any idea what the issues are. It was just paying homage to a headline I used almost two years ago:

Here's what I said then, and it bears repeating:

Allow me to repeat the key word from that headline, because it was carefully chosen to make the point I'm not taking sides in any of his legal cases. This is a nonpartisan blog. Objective. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Indifferent. Neutral. Forthright. Balanced. I'm neither here to opine on Trump's guilt nor defend him. He certainly doesn't need me to. Because he's got Alina Habba, Esq. doing it for him.

Swap out the names of the accused and Lindsey Halligan for Alina Habba, Mad Libs-style, and the sentiment is the same. It's important to get to know the legal professionals who are having such a profound impact on the course of American history.

Daily Mail -  Lindsey Halligan, 36, a former beauty queen, is rapidly emerging as a presidential favorite and will now have the task of investigating the former FBI Director, who remains one of the people her boss loathes most in the world.

The high-profile role catapults Halligan into the spotlight and means she will be front and center in more than one controversial case. …

Halligan, whose parents worked in healthcare, went to a private Catholic school in Broomfield, Colorado, where she was a basketball and softball star.

She went on to study politics and broadcast journalism at Regis University. …

Halligan competed twice in Miss Colorado USA, making the semi-finals in 2009 and finishing fourth in 2010. At the time, Trump co-owned the Miss Universe organization, which ran the pageants.

Halligan told the Washington Post earlier this year: 'Sports and pageants taught me confidence, discipline, and how to handle pressure, on the court, on the field, on the stage, in the courtroom, and now in the White House.'

Later, she graduated from the University of Miami with a law degree and served in the city's public defender's office, before working on insurance cases as a partner in a private firm.

In late 2021 she went straight from a court case to an event at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Halligan has previously recounted how she stood out because she was dressed in a suit. She said Trump spoke to her and she ended up becoming part of his legal team a few months later.

Say what you will about Trump. Based on my Facebook feed, everyone does. In a lot of cases, all day, every day. But there's no denying the man has an eye for a particular kind of attorney talent. Including Halligan, whom he might have possibly even met 15 years ago when she was on the pageant circuit against Charlie Kirk's future wife:

Maybe Halligan is right, and it was her smart, professional, business at the tournament in West Palm Beach that caught Trump's attention. Or perhaps he was able to pick up on the ways basketball, softball, and pageantry gave her life skills. Taught her the "confidence, discipline, and how to handle pressure," which carried over to the Justice Department. Maybe he was able to detect that what she learned "on the court, on the field, on the stage, in the courtroom, and now in the White House," made her the perfect candidate to indict an ex-FBI Director. After all, if you can go hard in the paint and the batter's box for a Catholic school, then tough it out through the Evening Gown and Swimsuit rounds against the cream of the crop of Colorado beauty, it's safe to assume prosecuting the former head of a three-letter federal intelligence agency ought to be no challenge at all. 

In an effort to be fair and balanced, I'll point out there are those questioning Halligan's credentials:

While others applaud her as a patriot, doing her sworn duty to carry out the laws of our land:

How you regard Halligan's prosecutorial skills and jurisprudence ability is entirely up to you. As I also said in my post about Atty. Habba, I'm unqualified to judge:

I spent a lot of my professional life in courtrooms. Where again, I was a disinterested observer. As a Massachusetts Court Officer, you're not the referee, or even a side judge. You're more the guy who holds the down marker on the sidelines. Except it's not really a job requirement to be able to count to four.

All I know is I'll be fascinated to watch where her career goes from this monumental, history-making moment. 

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How Halligan does prosecuting this case against Comey, only time will tell. If you hate Trump, this is a witch hunt. If you like him, this is retribution. All any of us can say for sure right now is we live in fascinating times.