In late summer of 2022 Lindsey Halligan was a 33 year-old attorney who, per a Washington Post article printed at the time, focused “on insurance claims at residential and commercial properties” and that “a search of federal court records found no filings under her name,” and nevertheless ended up on convicted felon President Trump’s legal defense team after meeting him at Mar-a-Lago.

One of the reporters on the byline of that story headlined “Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’” from a week after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Josh Dawsey, is now at the Wall Street Journal and on Wednesday he and a colleague wrote up an article headlined “Justice Department Officials Race to Charge James Comey as Deadline Looms,” describing how Halligan, newly-installed as the acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has now five days left before the statute of limitations expires on charging the former FBI director and seasoned federal prosecutor on some really fucking complicated theory that Comey lied to Congress during testimony about the 2016 election, the Russia investigation, and his abrupt 2017 firing.

So yeah, best of luck to Lindsey on that job of getting a grand jury to indict Comey before Tuesday while she gets settled in with overseeing prosecutions in a federal court district whose bailiwick includes the CIA headquarters – during a stretch where grand jurors seemingly are increasingly aware that they don’t actually have to indict the Trump regime’s enemies if they choose not to.