The investigation could potentially threaten Halligan’s licence to practise law and has reignited debate about how aggressively political power is being used within the American justice system.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lindsey Halligan has departed the Justice Department after a federal judge Tuesday barred her from referring to herself as a U.S.

The two most politically charged prosecutions of the season — the cases against James Comey and Letitia James — ended not with a dramatic courtroom revelation, but with something far more fundamental: ...