"Because if you look at this ruling, I will tell you, as a Justice Department alum, Kaitlan, it's painful. The way this broke. I was 10 minutes into teaching a class of college students, in a class about DOJ and the need to be independent of politics. And so, we stopped. We did breaking news is what happens if you take my class. Put it up on the screen, and started sort of reading the highlights."
"And at some point, I just turned to them and said, Guys, if you become prosecutors, don't ever do any of this. Because what this decision does is it calls out the two fundamental flaws with both of these prosecutions, the Comey and the Letitia James prosecutions. One, malice. The only reason Lindsey Halligan was there as the prosecutor in the first place is because the real prosecutors refused to charge it and got pushed out."
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James after finding that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was appointed illegally. The ruling identified two core defects: apparent malice in installing Halligan after career prosecutors declined to pursue charges and procedural incompetence, including failure to secure a grand jury indictment and to follow basic prosecutorial rules. The Justice Department retains the right to appeal to the Fourth Circuit, but legal prospects look weak. The dismissal has been characterized as a humiliating and damaging outcome for Department credibility.
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