America's federal courts have delivered in the past three weeks a series of colossally embarrassing defeats in President Donald Trump's furious campaign to punish his critics by contorting our justice system.

And now it looks like that campaign's slogan should be "if at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again."

Trump's epic flops, engineered by a team of shameless and incompetent lawyers, will apparently continue. There is no lesson for them to learn from failure when the boss can't hear anything but his own howling for retribution.

That's why Trump is now trying to quietly reinstall Lindsey Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, after a judge ruled on Nov. 24 that he had not legally appointed her to that position in September.

That ruling came with the dismissal of dodgy criminal indictments Halligan had procured against two prominent Trump critics, New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.

Trump and the Department of Justice have been curiously quiet about the attempt to reinstall Halligan, who is still calling herself a U.S. attorney, a title a judge said she does not legally hold.

And the Republicans in control of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has oversight approval for U.S. attorney appointments, did not respond recently when I requested information about Halligan.

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