THIS IS BOUND TO TURN TRUMP INTO A RANTING LUNATIC AGAIN

Judge throws out Comey and James cases as Trump's beauty queen prosecutor is humiliated

 

By Katelyn Caralle 

 

Daily Mail

Nov 24, 2025

 

 

A judge threw out the case against James Comey

 

Donald Trump's cases against his political foes James Comey and Letitia James have been thrown out.

Judge Cameron Currie accused Trump's hand-picked attorney Lindsey Halligan of 'prosecutorial misconduct' after she secured indictments against the former FBI director Comey and New York Attorney General James.

Halligan is 'a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience' who was never eligible to serve, the judge said.

A 120-day deadline on interim appointments expired during the previous prosecutor's tenure, meaning Pam Bondi did not have the authority to appoint Halligan - this was up to the district's federal judges.

'I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside,' wrote Currie, a Bill Clinton-appointed jduge.

Both Comey and James asked for their cases to be dismissed and the prosecutor to be disqualified because of 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. 

Comey was charged with making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding relating to his 2020 Senate testimony where he denied authorizing FBI officials to leak information to the press. 

 

They pointed to grand jury errors from the charges secured by Lindsey Halligan 

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference at the Office of the Attorney General in New York on February 16, 2024

 

James was indicted on charges including bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution concerning information on mortgage applications that prosecutors alleged was falsified.

Halligan, a former beauty queen, was named to the job of interim US Attorney for Virginia in September.

Before her appointment, Erik Siebert, a different interim attorney, was forced out amid pressure from Trump to file charges against his political enemies. 

Comey's lawyers argued that after Siebert was forced out, the judges should have had exclusive say over who would fill the vacancy.

But it was ultimately Trump who moved forward and nominated Halligan as he publicly pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against Comey and James.

'JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!' Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time.

Comey was indicted days later on charges of making a false statement and obstructing Congress, and James was charged soon after that in a mortgage fraud investigation.

 

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press before departing the White House on Marine One in Washington, D.C., on November 22

 

In a statement, James said, 'I am heartened by today's victory and grateful for the prayers and support I have received from around the country.'

'I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day,' the New York attorney general, a Democrat, said.

Judges have separately disqualified interim US attorneys in New Jersey, Los Angeles and Nevada, but have permitted cases brought under their watch to move forward.

But lawyers for Comey and James had argued that Currie's ruling needed to go even further because Halligan was the sole signer of the indictments and the driving force behind them.

Comey has for years been one of Trump's chief antagonists.

Appointed to the job in 2013 by President Barack Obama, Comey, at the time of Trump's 2016 election, was overseeing an investigation into whether his presidential campaign had conspired with Russia to sway the outcome of the race.

Furious over that investigation, Trump fired Comey in May 2017 and the two officials have verbally sparred in the years since.

James has also been a frequent target of Trump's ire, especially since she won a staggering judgment against him and the Trump Organization in a lawsuit alleging he defrauded banks by overstating the value of his real estate holdings on financial statements.

An appeals court overturned the fine, which had ballooned to more than $500 million with interest, but upheld a lower court's finding that Trump had committed fraud.