"Last week, federal Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed the charges against Comey and James on the basis that Trump's hand-picked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was not lawfully serving as an interim United States attorney. The Justice Department is appealing the ruling. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Patel told senior editor Jan Jekielek that the Trump administration had numerous options to proceed against Comey, and we're executing on all those options. So, we're not done."
"Comey's prosecution was fraught with prosecutorial mistakes, with the judge writing a scathing order, claiming Halligan's errors may have put the case in jeopardy. Halligan served as Trump's personal real estate attorney and had no experience as a prosecutor. She replaced Erik Siebert as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, after he refused to prosecute Comey and James due to lack of evidence. Ultimately, however, the judge ruled that Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment and granted the motion to dismiss the indictments without prejudice."
James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of making false statements and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying under oath to Congress. A federal judge dismissed the indictments after finding that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was not lawfully serving, and the Justice Department is appealing. Halligan, a former personal real estate attorney for Donald Trump with no prosecutorial experience, had replaced Erik Siebert after he declined to pursue charges for lack of evidence. The dismissals were granted without prejudice, allowing for potential refiling. The prosecution was described as fundamentally un-American and motivated by malevolence.
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