Pointed questions and gasps in courtroom: Takeaways from hearing on fate of Trump’s handpicked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan

By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James battled the Justice Department in court Thursday over whether President Donald Trump lawfully appointed a prosecutor to go after his political enemies. The two cases suffer from “a fundamental