Another part of the U.S. Constitution is the #AppointmentsClause which states that Federal officers need Congressional approval, either directly by the Senate or via laws for that specific purposed passed by both houses and signed into law.

#Trump who has twice sworn to defend the #USConstitution has apparently never understood it to apply to him. And so... on 2025/11/24 #Halligan was found *not* to be the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District where she was placed by Trump and then-Attorney General #PamBondi. She didn't take the hint.

2025/12/02 United States v. Jefferson (3:25-cr-00160) Unlike others I have selected, this is a criminal case. But when Trump couldn't get serious lawyers to prosecute his political enemies, he turned to incompetent ones without anything like legal appointments. On 2026/01/20 this Judge told her to GTFO. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984506/united-states-v-jefferson/

> This matter comes before the Court on the United States of America's (the "Government") Response to the Court's January 6, 2026 Order (ECF No. 22 ("Response")), which was submitted to the Court and signed by Ms. Lindsey Halligan on January 13, 2026. Ms. Halligan's filing comes in response to an Order directing her to file a pleading explaining the basis for her continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in the face of United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie's binding Court Orders, issued on November 24, 2025, that found Ms. Halligan's appointment as Interim U.S. Attorney unlawful under both 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

See Docket entry 23.