News Summary

• Lindsey Halligan is a senior White House aide.
• The nomination would place one of the president’s legal defenders in charge of an office in tumult over political pressure by administration officials to criminally charge New York Attorney General Letitia James in a mortgage fraud investigation.
• The announcement came as Trump pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to move forward with pursuing cases against some of his political opponents.
• The selection of Halligan came just hours after another conservative lawyer, Mary “Maggie” Cleary, said in an email to staff that she had been named acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.