Civil Action Podcast

Civil Action: Judge Disqualifies Trump’s Unqualified Nevada US Attorney

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose how Trump appointee Sigal Chattah was disqualified from federal criminal cases after Judge David Campbell ruled she unlawfully served as Nevada’s Acting US Attorney beyond the 120-day limit. The hosts reveal how Chattah—a failed 2022 attorney general candidate with a general practice handling DUIs and landlord-tenant disputes—represented one of Nevada’s fake electors and sued to decriminalize harassment of election workers. They explain how Trump circumvented Senate confirmation by relabeling her from “interim” to “acting” US Attorney after her term expired, while Nevada’s Democratic senators called her “extremist” and “deeply unfit” citing her racist statement that her Black opponent “should be hanging from a fucking crane.” The attorneys detail how Judge Campbell—a Bush appointee—ordered prosecutors to confirm within seven days that Chattah isn’t directing their work, exposing Trump’s pattern of installing unqualified loyalists to weaponize federal prosecution.