Legal experts said U.S. President Donald Trump ’s decision to personally choose the prosecutor who filed charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, two of Trump’s political foes, could jeopardize the cases, as the unusual selection process may raise procedural concerns.

Both Comey and James in court filings have argued that their criminal cases must be dismissed on the grounds that the prosecutor who brought them, Lindsey Halligan, is not validly serving in her role as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia .

“There’s a strong argument that Halligan’s appointment was invalid,” said Thomas A. Berry, a legal scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

If a court comes to that conclusion, and also de

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