ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge didn’t immediately rule Thursday but said she expects to decide by Thanksgiving on challenges to the appointment of a prosecutor who secured the indictments against two of President Donald Trump’s foes.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie said she expects to decide by Thanksgiving on challenges to Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. That decision could help determine the fate of cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Currie also disclosed in court that a record of grand jury proceedings in the Comey case that she reviewed was missing a portion, which she said raised questions about whether Attorney General Pam Bondi could have properly ratified the indictment as the Justice Department says she did.
Halligan was installed in the job at Trump’s urging by Bondi in September, just days before Comey was indicted, in what defense lawyers say was an end-run around the constitutional and statutory rules governing the appointment of U.S. attorneys. They say the maneuver was designed to ensure indictments against the president’s political opponents after the prosecutor who had been overseeing the two investigations, but had not brought charges, was effectively forced out.
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