A federal judge officially dismissed the Justice Department’s pending cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James after ruling that the prosecutor who sought the charges, Lindsey Halligan, was improperly appointed. It’s the latest blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to pursue legal action against the president’s political foes.

In her decision in Comey’s case, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote that Halligan, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was appointed to that role in violation of federal law. Attorney General Pam Bondi tapped Halligan to replace the interim appointee in that role, Erik Siebert, who resigned under pressure to pursue prosecutions against James and Comey that he felt were un

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