Judge disqualifies Halligan, tosses out Comey’s and Letitia James’ indictments

A federal decide on Monday dismissed the costs towards James Comey and Letitia James, ruling that they have been illegal as a result of they have been filed by an unqualified U.S. lawyer.

Choose Cameron Currie dismissed the false assertion expenses towards Comey and the financial institution fraud expenses towards James with out prejudice, that means the costs might be refiled.

“I conclude that the Legal professional Common’s try to put in Ms. Halligan as interim U.S. Legal professional for the Japanese District of Virginia was invalid and that Ms. Halligan has unlawfully served in that function since September 22, 2025,” Currie wrote.

The Justice Division may attraction the choice or attempt to have the costs introduced earlier than one other U.S. lawyer. Fox Information Digital has contacted the DOJ for remark.

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Former FBI Director James Comey testifies earlier than the Senate Intelligence Committee about his interactions with President Donald Trump and the Russia investigation on June 8, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Cheriss Might/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos)

The choice to drop two of the high-profile legal circumstances introduced by the DOJ towards President Donald Trump’s political enemies comes after the decide expressed skepticism at a current listening to in Virginia about Lindsey Halligan’s skill to pursue expenses as interim U.S. lawyer.

Currie, a Clinton appointee from South Carolina, was introduced in from out of state to steer the proceedings on the problem of Halligan’s authority as a result of it posed a battle for Virginia judges. Comey and James’ challenges to Halligan’s nomination have been consolidated due to their similarity.

Halligan acted alone in submitting expenses earlier than a grand jury days after Trump ousted former interim U.S. lawyer Erik Siebert and changed him with Halligan. On the identical time, Trump urged Legal professional Common Pam Bondi in a social media put up to behave shortly and cost Comey, a name that got here because the statute of limitations in his case was about to run out. Halligan, who had no prior prosecutorial expertise when she took over one of many nation’s most high-profile federal courtroom districts, was the one lawyer to current the circumstances to the grand jury and signal the indictments. No Virginia prosecutors joined the case.

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Lindsey Halligan, particular assistant to the president, speaks to a reporter outdoors the White Home, August 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

The DOJ has since thrown its full assist behind Halligan. Bondi tried to ratify after which re-ratify the costs after the actual fact, a transfer Currie prompt wouldn’t have been obligatory if Halligan had been a sound appointment.

DOJ lawyer Henry Whitaker had argued through the listening to that the motions to dismiss Comey and James’ circumstances concerned “a paperwork error at greatest.”

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James’ lawyer, Abbe Lowell, mentioned Halligan was a “non-public particular person” when she entered the grand jury chambers and was fully unauthorized to be there. Currie agreed, saying in her determination that retroactively validating Halligan and her actions could be unprecedented.

“The implications of a opposite conclusion are extraordinary,” Currie wrote. “It will imply that the federal government may ship any non-public citizen off the road — lawyer or not — into the grand jury room to safe an indictment, so long as the lawyer common offers it permission after the actual fact. That may’t be the legislation.’