The state bars of Florida and Virginia are under increased pressure to investigate Lindsey Halligan , the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who is overseeing the federal prosecutions of a former FBI director and New York’s attorney general.

Campaign for Accountability, a left-leaning legal watchdog group, filed a complaint on Tuesday accusing Halligan of violating the Virginia State Bar’s ethical rules for lawyers in her handling of the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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