A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James , concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department .

The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie halt at least for now a pair of prosecutions that had hastened concerns that the Justice Department was being weaponized to pursue the president’s political adversaries and amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's legal maneuvering to install a loyal, and inexperienced, prosecutor willing to file the cases.

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