{"id":281066,"date":"2025-11-24T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281066\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:41:08","slug":"us-judge-throws-out-criminal-cases-against-james-comey-and-letitia-james-james-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281066\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge throws out criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James | James Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136\/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.213.0_1.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threw out <\/a>the criminal cases against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/james-comey\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Comey<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/courtlistener.com\/docket\/71601414\/140\/united-states-v-james\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Letitia James <\/a>on Monday, concluding that the prosecutor handling the case was unlawfully appointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lindsey Halligan, who Trump named the interim US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia in September, had \u201cno lawful authority to present the indictment\u201d against the former FBI director and New York attorney general, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, wrote in her opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge threw out the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Monday, concluding that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-281066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}