A federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James , ruling that the prosecutor who secured the charges was appointed unlawfully.

Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Attorney General Pam Bondi exceeded her authority when she appointed Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prosecutorial experience, as interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in September.

Under federal law, the attorney general may appoint an interim US attorney for only 120 days. After that, appointment authority shifts exclusively to the district court. Because that 120-day window had expired in May, McGowan Currie ruled, Halligan’s

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