All the very best conservative lawyers in the country just happen to be models and pageant queens. So weird.
Trump has appointed that person, LIndsey Halligan to be the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia where she will prosecute Letitia James since he fired the other Trumper prosecutor who could find enough evidence to do it. He seems quite sure she will find it.
Lindsey Halligan is an American lawyer who is currently serving as a Special Assistant to the President in the second Trump administration. She previously practiced insurance law in Florida, before joining Donald Trump’s legal team in 2022. Trump has tasked her with removing “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution.
In a series of social media posts by Trump on September 20, 2025 where he called for prosecution against his political enemies, he said was appointing Halligan for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Her predecessor, Erik Siebert, resigned from the position after the Trump administration pressured him to bring criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James.Halligan has no prosecutorial experience, having primarily practiced law related to insurance claims.
Education and early life
Halligan attended Holy Family High school, and after graduation attended Regis University in Denver and earned a degree in political science and broadcast journalism.She competed in the Miss Colorado USA pageant twice in 2009 she was a semifinalist, and in 2010 she was third runner up. She was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2014.
Law career
Insurance lawHalligan was a partner at Cole, Scott and Kissane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and handled residential and commercial insurance claims.
Halligan was second chair to another lawyer defending an insurance company at a two-day trial against three Miami homeowners who had suffered damaged roofs. A judge would not award her attorneys fees because he ruled that her team did not act “in good faith.”
Halligan has represented Donald Trump since 2022. By August 2022, she had never handled a federal case. She was at Mar-a-Lago during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, quickly became involved in Trump’s lawsuit in October 2022 against CNN for allegedly comparing Trump to Hitler, and has been involved in his defense against the federal government in the classified documents case.
Trump’s Save America PAC paid Halligan $212,000 from June 2022 to June 2023.
In a March 2025 executive order, Trump tasked Halligan and JD Vance with removing “improper ideology” regarding portrayal of race in American history in the Smithsonian Institution. She currently serves as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Staff Secretary in the second Trump administration.
Honestly, I don’t know why he doesn’t just put Laura Loomer in the job. Nobody would stop him. But I suppose her real impediment is that she never won a beauty pageant like Alina Habba and this equally unqualified woman lawyer he hired for obvious reasons.
Good luck with that prosecution. Letitia James is a real lawyer.