COLUMBIA — It took federal judge and Florence native Cameron McGowan Currie fewer than 60 pages to defang a pair of legal efforts by the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute two of President Trump’s political rivals, James Comey and Letitia James.

The decisions, filed Nov. 24, reaffirmed arguments made by attorneys for the former FBI director and New York State attorney general that Trump’s prosecutor — former White House aide and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan — was illegally appointed to try the case in the first place.

The senior U.S. District judge from South Carolina was tasked with overseeing the case earlier this fall.

The charges against Comey and James also flung Currie into the national spotlight for issuing what the Associated Press described as “a stunning rebuke

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