Posted on 11/26/2025 8:59:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor overseeing them was unlawfully appointed to her role.
That prosecutor is Lindsey Halligan, a 36-year-old former insurance attorney who served as one of President Trump's personal lawyers after his first term and joined his second administration as a White House aide.
Trump appointed Halligan as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in late September, the day after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, resigned under pressure from the president to bring charges against Comey and James.
In his announcement, Trump called Halligan a "tough, smart and loyal attorney" who "has the strength and determination to be absolutely OUTSTANDING in this new and very important role."
But Halligan's tenure has been mired in controversy, reaching new highs on Monday when U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled in dual opinions that Halligan's appointment was unlawful.
The judge found that Halligan's appointment violated a federal statute that limits interim U.S. attorneys to 120 days in the role, because Siebert had been in that acting role since January. After 120 days without a Senate confirmation, only district courts — not the Attorney General — can fill a vacancy.
Currie wrote that Halligan, whom she describes as "a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience," had "no lawful authority to present the indictment" against Comey or James. Because Halligan's was the only signature on those documents, they are rendered invalid.
"All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside," Currie wrote.
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National Propaganda Radio.
NPR?
What?
It failed because the judiciary is going to send all these cases back
People just bash Trump and his team
We can’t even get the afghanis out who cflocked over during the Biden fiasco.
We can’t get the military reinstated who refused the unlawful order to take the Covid shot
They’re all waiting out Trumps term which, if the republicans in congress get their wish, will end when they throw the midterms
NAZI Propaganda Radio
The title is a lie.
Also, keep in mind that Comey, known in federal documents as Corney, has other legal problems that are not going away.
I think that she might have been intended to fail.
The question is, “Why?”
Blondi was about to let the statute of limitations expire when Trump sent her in to get under the wire. The judge will be reversed on appeal, and they know it. They are just trulying to slow walk everything.
Blondi is the problem.
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