A funny thing happened to Donald Trump in the past month. After spending much of the year on a sort of revanchist blitzkrieg that terrified the left and convinced many that his second term would far outpace his first, Trump has begun to genuinely fail. And the failure, for those who followed the last time closely, is familiar: Rising autocracy is headed off by rank incompetence.

The collapse of the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James speak to the rot at the heart of the Trump administration. Lindsey Halligan, predictably, was found to be appointed illegally after her predecessor was driven out of office after rightly concluding that the cases did not have legal merit. The Senate never confirmed Halligan, and her interim appointment couldn’t be indefinite as a matter of law. I

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