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CfA - VA Bar Complaint Follow Up- Lindsey Halligan

You can read CfA's renewed complaint here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Following yesterday's renewed complaint asking the VA and FL Bars to investigate Lindsey Halligan's apparent misconduct, CfA's Michelle Kuppersmith joined Adam Klasfeld of @allrisenews.com + @legalafmtn.bsky.social to discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D73m...

CfA - VA Bar Complaint Follow Up- Lindsey Halligan

“Failing to investigate under these egregious circumstances sends the message that powerful prosecutors can violate ethical rules with impunity, safe in the knowledge that the Bar will turn a blind eye.”
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Despite the Bar’s claim it lacks jurisdiction, VA law entrusts the regulation and discipline of all attorneys—including prosecutors—to the Bar, which has previously disciplined prosecutors w/o a judicial referral, including in similar cases involving incompetence and misconduct.

Watchdog Renews Lindsey Halligan Bar Complaint Following Court Rulings After three federal courts issued scathing rulings around Ms. Halligan's conduct, Campaign for Accountability renewed its complaint to the VA and FL Bars.

“Two federal judges found that Ms. Halligan operated without legal authority—with one finding she openly defied court orders, and another concluding that she misled a grand jury,” said CfA’s Michelle Kuppersmith. campaignforaccountability.org/watchdog-ren...

CfA's renewed complaint follows three scathing rulings issued by federal courts, which highlight numerous aspects of Ms. Halligan's conduct that the Bar may consider.

VA Bar 11-14-25 Response to CfA Lindsey Halligan Complaint

Following CfA’s original complaint in November, the Virginia State Bar declined to investigate, claiming it was up to the courts, not the Bar, to determine whether Ms. Halligan had made false statements in violation of the rules of conduct.

Watchdog Renews Lindsey Halligan Bar Complaint Following Court Rulings After three federal courts issued scathing rulings around Ms. Halligan's conduct, Campaign for Accountability renewed its complaint to the VA and FL Bars.

NEW: CfA renewed its request for the Virginia State Bar to investigate former Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan for multiple potential violations of professional conduct rules during her brief, four-month tenure leading the Eastern District of Virginia.

TTP - Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores Apple and Google ban apps that create sexualized images. But both companies offer dozens of apps that can strip the clothes off people.

NEW: Apple and Google ban apps that create sexualized images.

But a new TTP report found dozens of “nudify” apps in the companies’ stores that can digitally remove the clothes from women, rendering them naked or in scant clothing.

Ethics Authority Won't Pursue Brendan Carr Charges Because Alleged Misconduct Was Too... Obvious? - Above the Law Apparently, unless you personally watched them through binoculars, ethics violations are just vibes.

Writing for @abovethelaw.com, @joepatrice.bsky.social said, "Maryland authorities could themselves have “personal knowledge of the information being submitted” if they would just open up their Spotify," and that "Just because [they] *can* decline to take the case, that doesn’t mean they should."

Maryland Bar Cites Technicality in Ducking Investigation of FCC Chair Carr The Bar’s response did not address the substance of Carr’s conduct, instead citing a rule that it “may" decline a complaint derived from public materials.

“Although Maryland rules provide that Bar counsel ‘may’ dismiss a complaint that draws on public accounts – leaving it fully within counsel’s discretion to investigate allegations of violations – the Bar chose not to," said CfA's Michelle Kuppersmith.

NEW: In response to CfA's complaint requesting an investigation into FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s threats to broadcasters, the Maryland Bar issued a letter saying it was declining to investigate -- though, it failed to address the substance of Carr's conduct.

Breaking: TX Attorney General Ken Paxton Agrees to Unseal Divorce File The signed agreement comes on the eve of a hearing before a Texas court considering a motion by CfA and numerous media organizations to unseal the file.

Breaking: On the eve of a hearing to consider a motion by Campaign for Accountability and numerous media orgs to unseal the divorce record of Texas AG Ken Paxton and Texas State Senator Angela Paxton, the Paxton’s abruptly dropped their efforts to keep the record sealed.

Virginia Bar Pauses on Lindsey Halligan Discipline Pending Court Ruling Despite public evidence of apparent misconduct, the Virginia Bar said in a Nov. 14 letter that it is unable to pursue an investigation before a court rules.

“The courts have been doing their job in recognizing misconduct when they see it. State bars must do the same.” campaignforaccountability.org/virginia-bar...

“If, when confronted with actions as egregious as Ms. Halligan’s, a state bar, which allegedly polices the conduct of its members, claims it can do nothing more than reiterate the findings of a court, what purpose does it serve?” CfA’s Michelle Kuppersmith said of the Virginia Bar response.

Comey case hanging by a thread as judge squeezes DOJ over Halligan’s handling The judge also appeared puzzled after a lead prosecutor said he couldn’t reveal whether career attorneys initially recommended against charging the former FBI director.

It was also before it was revealed that Halligan didn’t even present the final, signed Comey indictment to the full grand jury—a lapse that the defense says completely invalidates the entire prosecution. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The bar’s letter, dated November 14th, was three days *before* Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick issued a ruling in the Comey case raising concerns around “government misconduct,” saying Halligan had made “fundamental misstatements of the law.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

VA Bar 11-14-25 Response to CfA Lindsey Halligan Complaint

Read the full letter here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The Bar said whether Halligan lied or acted for political purposes is for "the court to determine and not this office. If the court determines that Ms. Halligan made false statements to the court and sanctions her for the conduct, the Virginia Bar can initiate an investigation."

NEW: The Virginia Bar has issued a response to a complaint CfA filed last month against Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan (who a court has since found was illegally appointed), regarding her conduct in the prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James.

AI Chatbots Point Women to Unproven and Unethical “Abortion Pill Reversal." Experts agree "abortion pill reversal" is unproven and potentially dangerous. But a report shows AI sending searchers to a "helpline" promoting its use.

If this test is indeed emblematic of a larger flaw in AI’s ability to side with the science when an opposing voice is producing a far greater *quantity* of content, this issue may have implications that extend far beyond abortion.

Read the report: campaignforaccountability.org/ai-chatbots-...

Experts say LLMs—which are often “trained on large datasets of text, often scraped from the Internet”—are more likely to advance false information when a topic’s “training data [is] filled with ‘false statements […] or other texts that are not factual or concerned with truth.”

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While *some* medical authorities have publicly debunked “abortion pill reversal,” the handful of entries from those sources are vastly outnumbered by content produced by the anti-abortion industry. One study found over 500 CPC websites promoting “reversal." www.news-medical.net/news/2024120...

Although other studies have shown mixed results on AI’s ability to deliver “acceptable” responses to abortion questions, the answers to CfA’s questions on “abortion pill reversal” fall dangerously short. The likely reason? AI may be preferencing quantity of info over quality.

Some also improperly positioned the controversy around “abortion pill reversal” as an equally-weighted disagreement between two sides of the medical community—omitting the fact that only one is backed by science.

The AI responses to CfA’s test queries also advanced several anti-abortion talking points and mistruths, including that abortion providers may not offer women a choice in how to proceed, and that science-following doctors may simply lack “expertise” around “abortion pill reversal."

When CfA tested to see how ChatGPT, Google, Meta AI, Grok, and Perplexity would direct women asking about their options after taking mifepristone, all, in at least one search, gave out the biased "helpline." In 50% of all responses, it was the *only* phone number provided.

Yet, avowed anti-abortion organization Heartbeat International operates an “Abortion Pill Reversal Helpline,” which researchers say uses “coercive, antiabortion messaging […] to transmit misinformation about the possibility and evidence behind reversal.”

Given the lack of evidence and the potential for harm, trusted medical entities like the American Medical Association, the American College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians, Planned Parenthood, and more, all advise that “abortion pill reversal” should not be promoted.

More than that, the first time the “reversal” theory was tested in a study with scientifically-accepted standards, the trial had to be halted early for safety after some women experienced serious complications.