After a biased judge dismissed criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York AG Letitia James, the Justice Department has appealed the decision. The dismissal was based on a ruling from U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie, who held that Lindsey Halligan, the Trump-selected interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was unlawfully appointed because the 120-day interim appointment period had expired.
For context, Comey faced charges of making false statements and obstruction related to 2020 congressional testimony, while James faced charges of mortgage fraud tied to a Virginia property. Both cases fell apart after the ruling.
Reacting to the dismissal, AG Pam Bondi quipped, “Lindsay Halligan is an excellent U.S. attorney, and shame on them for not wanting her in office. Additionally, she was asked for her reactions to a statement from James Comey where he whined that Trump “cannot use the Department of Justice to target his political enemies.”
Answering confidently, Bondi said, “I’m going to keep going on this,” adding, “I’m not worried about someone who has been charged with a very serious crime. His alleged actions were a betrayal of public trust, so…”
Currie stated that all actions flowing from” Halligan’s installation, including the indictments, were invalid and must be set aside.” Unfortunately, efforts to secure an indictment through grand juries have also failed, including a recent attempt to charge James with a third felony.
In an effort to resolve this issue, the Trump administration has now formally nominated Halligan to the Senate for a permanent appointment. However, Virginia’s Democratic senators have indicated they will stymie the process.
However, Abbe Lowell, James’s biased lawyer, wrote an entitled message to AG Pam Bondi after the initial indictment. “The stunning hypocrisy of President Trump’s complaint that the Justice Department had been ‘politicized’ and ‘weaponized’ against him is laid bare as he and others in his Administration are now asking you to undertake the very same practice,” he announced.
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Doubling down on his strained reasoning, Lowell claimed, “As I have set forth, the exhibits Director Pulte included with his letter are notable for the fact that he omitted numerous other records (some of which we have included) which refute the allegations of impropriety, and make clear that a mistake on one line had no significance.”
In the initial controversial ruling, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie declared, “I conclude that the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. [Lindsey] Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid and that Ms. Halligan has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025.”
Adding to that ridiculous ruling, Judge Currie claimed, “The implications of a contrary conclusion are extraordinary. It would mean the Government could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the Attorney General gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law.”
Despite these issues, CASA, a conservative watchdog, issued a confident statement blasting Letitia James’s “illegal and dishonest conduct,” adding, “Fraud, misrepresentation, honesty and trustworthiness are all factors that the Rules of Professional Conduct expressly consider when weighing whether to discipline an attorney.”
Adding more context, Curtis Schube, the CASA director of research and policy, laid out the case in detail.”The Committee, therefore, should immediately investigate the allegations against James and, if by ‘preponderance of the evidence’ the allegations are substantiated, she should be disciplined accordingly,” he said.
Watch Letitia James freak out over the charges here: