President Donald Trump‘s revenge plots against James Comey and Letitia James might be foiled.
A judge tossed out the case against the former FBI director and New York Attorney General because of grand jury errors stemming from ‘prosecutorial misconduct.’
The South Carolina judge threw shade at Donald Trump’s hand-picked attorney Lindsey Halligan, who secured the indictments against Comey and James in her role as interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Judge Cameron Currie pointed to the fact that Halligan is ‘a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience.’
The judge, who was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton, says that Halligan was illegally appointed and therefore the inducements against Comey and James are moot.
Both Comey and James asked for their cases to be dismissed and the prosecutor to be disqualified because the manner in which she was appointed.
The defendants in the two separate cases asked for the indictments to be dismissed with prejudice, which means the Justice Department would not be able to bring the same charges against them. But the judge dismissed with prejudice.
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A judge threw out the case against James Comey
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