Lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James are calling shenanigans on U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's bending of "space and time" to retroactively shore up a controversial interim U.S. attorney appointment, arguing the move was a "telling indication" that the DOJ "knows" the bank fraud indictment is "null and void."

Bondi raised eyebrows by signing an appointment order on Halloween and backdating it to Sept. 22, claiming to have removed any "doubt" about the validity of Lindsey Halligan's installation.

The retroactively granted supervising special attorney role for Halligan, the lone signer of the Comey and James indictments, meant her appointment cannot reasonably be questioned, the DOJ said, to stave off James' and ex-FBI Director James Comey's dismissal bids in the Eastern

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