Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan faces backlash after off-the-record texts with a journalist spark a Justice Department ethics storm involving Comey and Letitia James prosecutions.

Letitia James tore into her prosecutor as a professional rules "violator-in-chief" for lecturing a journalist on Signal about her bank fraud case.

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan sent Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower dozens of text messages earlier this month to complain about her reporting -- and then attempted to claim after the fact the conversation was off the record.

Senior Judge Cameron Currie has been tapped to weigh a rare bid to remove Lindsey Halligan from the James Comey case.

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a notice on Thursday that her legal team plans to ask for her indictment to be dismissed, citing the appointment of President Donald Trump’s handpicked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan,

For the record, James, who successfully brought a civil fraud case against Trump last year, is in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, today, October 24, to answer charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution regarding the mortgage on a second home.

White House" host said Halligan's reported behavior could be enough to get her "called into the principal’s office."

Anna Bower, a journalist with Lawfare, described how Trump's hand-picked prosecutor unexpectedly tried to discredit reporting on the case against Letitia James.

Halligan’s first prosecution faces pressure as filing errors fuel doubts about experience and the strength of the Comey case.

Lawyers for Letitia James also say they'll ask a judge to toss out the criminal case against her, arguing the Trump-appointed prosecutor is serving in the role unlawfully.