Trump’s US attorneys in blue states face legal challenges that could upend key prosecutions

Trump-appointed lawyers leading key federal court districts in blue states have become wrapped up in legal disputes that are testing their authority and threatening to undermine criminal cases they are overseeing.U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, who brought a high-profile indictment against former FBI Director James Comey in Virginia, is in the hot seat, as are President Donald Trump’s appointees in New Jersey, California and Nevada.In a sign of his growing frustration over the matter, Trump wrote in a pair of statements Thursday night that he had "eight GREAT Republican U.S. Attorney Candidate