Lindsey Halligan appointed as US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after president demands investigations of his political enemies

President Donald Trump has announced his nomination of Lindsey Halligan as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Lindsey Halligan appointed as US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after president demands investigations of his political enemies

The president also named his former defense attorney late Saturday to replace the head of a key prosecutor’s office he forced out a day earlier.

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…