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By Devan Cole, CNN

(CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ripped into Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s personal choice as the top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, after she used unusually sharp language to push back on the judge’s questioning of her authority, saying the “unnecessary rhetoric” had “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”

The assessment from US District Judge David Novak, who was appointed by Trump in 2019, is the latest dramatic development in a months-long legal saga surrounding Halligan, whose tenure was cut short after a judge determined in November that she was unlawfully serving in the role.

That decision, which effectively killed criminal cases Halligan brought at the president’s urging against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James, should have also meant that Halligan no longer represented herself as the US attorney leading the office, according to judges in the district. But she continued to use the title on court documents, drawing the ire of Novak and other judges who thought she was openly flouting the ruling.

“Ms. Halligan has continued to identify herself as the United States Attorney for this District in pleadings, including on the indictment and other pleadings in this case,” Novak wrote in an 18-page ruling in a criminal case brought by Halligan’s office. “I elected to give Ms. Halligan an opportunity to explain her position … After reviewing Ms. Halligan’s filing and piercing through the unnecessary rhetoric, I find her position to be unavailing.”

“Ms. Halligan’s response, in which she was joined by both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice,” the judge wrote. “The Court will not engage in a similar tit-for-tat.”

Novak said Halligan cannot continue to ignore the ruling issued last year by US District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, which found that her appointment was invalid, and warned that Halligan “and anyone who joins her on a pleading containing the improper moniker” could be subjected to potential disciplinary action.

But he spared Halligan from facing such consequences for now. He pointed out she had no prosecutorial experience when she took the helm of the US Attorney’s office in September and said he was giving her the benefit of the doubt.

“In light of her inexperience, the court grants Ms. Halligan the benefit of the doubt and refrains from referring her for further investigation and disciplinary action regarding her misrepresentations to this Court at this time,” Novak wrote.

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El ministro de Interior de Chile, Álvaro Elizalde, confirmó la noche del lunes que ascendió a 20 el número de personas muertas por los incendios forestales que arden desde el sábado en las regiones de Ñuble y Biobío, en el sur del país.

La emergencia, que dejó miles de evacuados, 75 heridos y más de 500 personas albergadas, ha consumido 20.000 hectáreas en el BíoBio, la región más afectada, en especial la comuna de Penco, unos 500 kilómetros al sur de la capital.

Un hombre fue detenido el lunes por la noche en esta localidad por presuntamente intentar comenzar un incendio en este sector: “Se le incautó un encendedor con el cual, presuntamente, estaba encendiendo fuego y, también, una bolsa de nailon que tenía en su interior cable con cobre”, señaló el mayor Bruno Gallardo.

El arrestado, de 50 años y con antecedentes de hurto e infracción a la Ley de Drogas, fue retenido por vecinos después de supuestamente encontrarle prendiendo fuego con un encendedor a vegetación en las cercanías de un cuartel de bomberos.

Desde el inicio de los incendios, el Gobierno ha reiterado en varias ocasiones que el Estado “perseguirá” a los responsables de los incendios y que los hechos “no quedarán impunes”.

El lunes, el presidente de Chile, Gabriel Boric, y el presidente electo, José Antonio Kast, comparecieron en una inédita muestra de unidad desde La Moneda, en la que llamaron a la responsabilidad ciudadana.

Boric agradeció la “disposición” de Kast, su gran rival político y quien se encuentra en sus antípodas ideológicas, e indicó que al ultraderechista le tocará liderar “parte del importante proceso de reconstrucción”.

Las regiones afectadas se mantienen en alerta roja, bajo estado de catástrofe y en toque de queda nocturno. Las condiciones climáticas han sido adversas para enfrentar los fuegos, con temperaturas extremas y un viento seco y cálido que sopla desde la cordillera de los Andes hacia el valle y que ha complicado las tareas de extinción.

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