A federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the cases was unlawfully appointed.
Judge Currie concluded that Lindsey Halligan, named interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in September, “had no legal authority” to seek the indictments. The judge threw out both cases on that ground but dismissed them without prejudice, allowing the Justice Department to refile under a properly…