{"id":17983,"date":"2026-01-21T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-announces-departure-of-halligan-from-us-attorneys-office\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:22:07","slug":"bondi-announces-departure-of-halligan-from-us-attorneys-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-announces-departure-of-halligan-from-us-attorneys-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi announces departure of Halligan from US Attorneys office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday announced that Lindsey Halligan, the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, has departed her position, citing Senate Democrats &#8220;making it impossible&#8221; for her to continue past her 120-day appointment deadline. &#8220;During her 120-day tenure as Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5698137-lindsey-halligan-departs-eastern-district\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday announced that Lindsey Halligan, the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, has departed her position, citing Senate Democrats &#8220;making it impossible&#8221; for her to continue past her 120-day appointment deadline. &#8220;During her 120-day tenure as Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}