Attorney General Pam Bondi is trying to retroactively shore up the embattled U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in a bid to save the government’s cases against two of President Donald Trump’s political enemies.

In a court document dated Oct. 31 and filed on Monday, Bondi wrote that she was appointing Lindsey Halligan as a “special attorney” as of Sept. 22.

She also declared that she hereby “ratified” Halligan’s actions before the grand juries in the cases of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The move came after Comey and James filed motions arguing that their prosecutions should be thrown out because Halligan was improperly serving as Eastern Virginia’s top prosecutor.

The former beauty pageant contestant and insurance attor

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