Halligan, Trump’s Chosen Prosecutor, Takes Over Comey and James Cases NYT | Top Stories Devlin Barrett and Glenn Thrush 23 September 2025 at 07:53 The president is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted. © Evan Vucci/Associated PressUntil she was sworn in as an interim U.S. attorney on Monday, Lindsey Halligan was a White House adviser with no prosecutorial experience.