Attorneys for former U.S. President Donald Trump; James Trusty, Lindsey Halligan and John Rowley, depart the U.S. Justice Department after meeting with Justice Department officials over the Trump Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, after Trump's lawyers last month sent the department a letter asking for a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, in Washington, U.S. June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Lynch/File Photo

Two major cases brought against President Donald Trump's perceived political enemies are stalled out after a series of ruling's against Donald Trump's handpicked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan. Now, official's are weighing different options to continue bringing the cases in the near future, according to Politico.

Trump's Department of Justice had been attempting to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York State Attorney General Letitia James, two perceived enemies that the president had singled out for retribution. The charges, widely criticized as insubstantial, were tossed last week on the grounds the interim U.S. Attorney handling them, Lindsey Halligan, had not been lawfully appointed.

The DOJ vowed at the time to appeal these decisions, but has since remained quiet on the matter.

“We’ll be taking all available legal action, including an immediate appeal,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the aftermath of the cases being tossed last week. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also claimed that appeals would be forthcoming "very soon."

According to sources speaking with Politico, however, the department is now considering two options to continue prosecuting Comey and James: either try for an appeal, as they previously pledged, or start again and try to get new grand juries to approve new charges against them.

As Politico noted in its report, this latter option is risky and could result in another high-profile failure for the Trump administration.

"Such a move could be politically fraught," the outlet explained. "A new grand jury could decline to greenlight charges against Comey or James, risking Trump’s ire and another embarrassing blow after the Justice Department has faced intense scrutiny for its handling of the cases."

Speaking to Politico, legal experts suggested that, with no appeal made since last week, the DOJ was most likely going to attempt to bring new indictments against Comey and James. To avoid potential setbacks again, they might try fix the contents of these new indictments, and potentially have Halligan present them as a "special attorney" appointed by Bondi, which might get around the unlawful appointment issues that sank the initial cases.

Despite the DOJ's hope to bring both cases, experts tended to agree that the Comey case was dead in the water, due to the statute of limitations passing on the charges against him.

“For Attorney General James, there’s no problem re-indicting here,” Gene Rossi, a former senior federal prosecutor in Virginia, explained. “For Comey, there’s no hook... For the Comey case, I think it’s gone.”