Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan faces backlash after off-the-record texts with a journalist spark a Justice Department ethics storm involving Comey and Letitia James prosecutions.

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan sent Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower dozens of text messages earlier this month to complain about her reporting -- and then attempted to claim after the fact the conversation was off the record.

Senior Judge Cameron Currie has been tapped to weigh a rare bid to remove Lindsey Halligan from the James Comey case.

President Trump announced Saturday that he would be nominating Lindsey Halligan to serve as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Trump had been floating Halligan for the prosecutor job in the Eastern District of Virginia throughout the evening on Saturday.

A Trump-appointed prosecutor tried to claim that a series of messages to a reporter criticizing her coverage had been “off the record.” But she was too late. Lindsey Halligan, a former insurance lawyer who Trump appointed as the U.

White House" host said Halligan's reported behavior could be enough to get her "called into the principal’s office."

Letitia James tore into her prosecutor as a professional rules "violator-in-chief" for lecturing a journalist on Signal about her bank fraud case.