Trump’s Beauty Queen Prosecutor Rages at Judge Over Humiliating Court Order

XNY/Star Max/GC Images President Donald Trump’s embattled U.S. attorney pick filed a furious response to a judge’s question about why she’s still calling herself a U.S. attorney after a court ruled her appointment was illegal. The president’s own appointee, Judge David Novak, issued an order earlier this month demanding that Lindsey Halligan “explain why her identification does not constitute a false or misleading statement.” The 36-year-old former beauty pageant contestant and insurance lawyer—who also worked as a civil attorney for Trump—is still calling herself the U.S. attorney on the Eastern District of Virginia’s website and on X, and has been signing criminal indictments as the U.S. attorney. Read more at The Daily Beast.