Posted on 11/24/2025 9:55:41 AM PST by DFG
A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.
The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to target Trump’s political opponents. It also highlights its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases.
The orders make Lindsey Halligan the latest Trump administration prosecutor to be disqualified because of the manner in which they were appointed. Both defendants had asked for the cases to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning that the Justice Department would not be able to bring them again. But the judge instead dismissed them without prejudice, though it was not immediately clear if or how the Justice Department might attempt to revive the prosecutions.
Monday’s order deals exclusively with the mechanism the Trump administration employed to appoint Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, to lead one of the Justice Department’s most elite and important offices.
Halligan was named to the job in September after a different interim U.S. attorney, Erik Siebert, was effectively forced out amid pressure from the Trump administration to file charges against Comey and James.
After Siebert resigned, Comey’s lawyers argued, the judges of the federal court district should have had exclusive say over who got to fill the vacancy. Instead, Trump nominated Halligan while publicly imploring Bondi in a social media post to take action against his political opponents, saying in a Truth Social post that “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
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Bondi should just present the cases herself. Easy peasy.
THESE ARE THE TWO BASTARDS THAT COMPLAINED REPUBLICANS WERE ABOVE THE LAW.
Smirky Comey may not be out of the woods yet.
What exactly had Bondi done and why is Trump so enamored of her?
Comey is. His statute of limitations is up.
The Comey indictment was a joke and I’m sad that more people didn’t recognize this.
She’s the worst.
Must be nice to be a democrat.
i think Todd B or Mike Lee,not sure which, said if leftie judge tried this DOJ would appeal.
this is all because of Bondi. Trump too, for choosing her. Such a mickey mouse operation.
I would be banned if I wrote what I want to.
Why don’t the GOOBERS disqualify all these weaponized DIPSTICK Court Jugheads In Robes for the way they were chosen?
All the Trump indictments were a joke but look how that turned out.
That’s what friends do
The dismissal can be appealed, if successful the indictment would stand.
Another Regal Judge ... all fall doen and worship ... and
Congre$$ just continue zzzzzzzzzzzzz
What the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge!?!
The game is rigged.
Nah. Comey has the best lawyers and these judges are never going to convict him or any of these people.
That’s all
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