ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge said at a hearing Thursday she would rule before Thanksgiving on whether to dismiss the high-profile criminal indictments against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no overt signs about how that ruling might come down, as attorneys grappled at the hearing over the wording of an 18-year-old statute that governs the attorney general’s ability to appoint interim U.S. attorneys.

Trump ally Lindsey Halligan obtained grand jury indictments against Comey and James shortly after her appointment as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The defense teams contend that appointment was invalid.

Currie, who sits in the U.S. District Court for the District of South C

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