LIVE: Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed

A national justice has dismissed the transgression cases against erstwhile FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the authoritative who brought the charges astatine President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

The rulings from U.S. District Cameron McGowan Currie magnitude to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts to people Trump's governmental opponents arsenic good arsenic its ineligible maneuvering to hastily instal a loyalist authoritative consenting to record the cases.

The orders marque Lindsey Halligan the latest Trump medication authoritative to beryllium disqualified due to the fact that of the mode successful which they were appointed.