A judge ordered that charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James , both targets of President Donald Trump , be dismissed because the prosecutor who secured the charges was unlawfully appointed .

Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote in opinions on Monday that only a district court had the power to appoint a new head to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, after the previous head of that office departed. Instead, Attorney General Pam Bondi attempted to appoint Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer to Trump, to head the office. Halligan secured charges against Comey and James from federal grand juries.

"I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment, i

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