A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the U.S. attorney who brought the charges was unlawfully appointed. The judge's decision is a significant setback for the Trump administration, which had publicly pushed for the prosecutions of his perceived political opponents. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer to President Trump with no prior prosecutorial experience, was illegally installed as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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