The request to dismiss the case came after Lindsey Halligan acknowledged she had never shown a final version of the indictment to the entire grand jury for a vote.
A subpoena issued by the F.B.I. suggests the Justice Department may be seeking to identify officials who might have shared information about the inquiry into Senator Adam Schiff in an unauthorized way.
The Justice Department appears interested in the interactions among Bill Pulte, Ed Martin and the “key witness” in the mortgage fraud investigation of Senator Adam Schiff.
The resurrected inquiry could finally get to the bottom of lingering questions such as: Did top Trump administration officials purposely ignore a court order?
Judge James E. Boasberg’s initial order laying out the contempt investigation outlined an aggressive process for figuring out what happened inside the administration.
He described his dismissal as the latest move by senior F.B.I. officials to play politics, damaging morale and hindering the bureau’s ability to carry out its public safety mission.
David Maltinsky has asked a federal judge to reinstate him at the F.B.I. Academy, where he had been pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a federal agent.
Grand jurors have to vote on indictments to approve them, but a prosecutor told the judge in the case that only the foreperson formally approved the second charging document, a move that could cripple the case.
The magistrate judge raised the question of whether “government misconduct” in the case might require dismissing the charges against the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, altogether.
Lindsey Halligan, who had never worked on a criminal case until she was thrust into the Comey prosecution, has faced extensive scrutiny from the moment she took over the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate the dealings of Democrats with Jeffrey Epstein, after a week in which his own relationship with the convicted sex offender was in the spotlight.
President Trump’s announcement came after Democrats released emails earlier this week suggesting that Mr. Trump’s knowledge of Mr. Epstein’s sex trafficking operation was deeper than previously known.
The judge in the case gave little signal of how she intended to rule, but her promise to decide within two weeks was a clear sign that she wanted to move quickly.
President Trump put Lindsey Halligan in charge of the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia with explicit public instructions to go after his rivals.
The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from continuing state-level prosecutions.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and lawyer for President Trump, at a commemoration ceremony on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan in September.
The Justice Department moved an inquiry that appeared initially focused on the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan to South Florida and is beginning to recruit line prosecutors.
The investigation into Muriel E. Bowser, which is being handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, could face significant hurdles because of the known facts of the case and recent turmoil inside the Justice Department.
The flashpoint was the Justice Department’s failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey’s, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.
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