The biggest question about President Donald Trump ’s payback prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James was not so much whether they’d fail but how. And now, much as common earthly bacteria foiled the alien invasion in War of the Worlds , the Comey and James cases have died (for the moment) for the most fundamental and unremarkable of reasons: The prosecutor who indicted them wasn’t actually a proper prosecutor in the first place.

Our (quasi) prosecutor in question is one Lindsey Halligan , attorney-at-law . Ordinarily, the president nominates and the Senate confirms all U.S. attorneys. But when the position is vacant, federal law empowers the attorney general to name a temporary replacement who can serve for up to 120 days; after that, the federal judges of that dist

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