A federal judge has dismissed indictments against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The move should be a lesson for the White House.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie, appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, sided with Mr. Comey, who had argued that the prosecutor who brought the case against him, Lindsey Halligan, was appointed in illegal fashion. Because Ms. Halligan was also the sole signatory on the James indictment, the judge vacated that case, too.

“All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey’s indictment, were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside,” the judge wrote. On the James case, Judge Currie noted that Ms. Halligan had been ”unconst

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