{"id":281188,"date":"2025-11-24T20:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281188\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:11:04","slug":"live-updates-judge-dismisses-cases-against-james-comey-and-letitia-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281188\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Lindsey Halligan?published at 19:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Halligan standing in the Oval Office\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7e16e833-e9ee-4465-9505-5ea6e3e08b9e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"566\" height=\"318\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge&#8217;s ruling today centres on the appointment of Lindsey Halligan to the role of interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Cameron Currie says Halligan was not legally appointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Halligan was one of President Trump&#8217;s former defence lawyers, and took on the position at Trump&#8217;s direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The person who used to have that role was Erik Siebert. He resigned under pressure from President Trump after his investigation into James failed to bring criminal charges. Trump had told reporters: &#8220;I want him out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Soon after taking office, Halligan brought the Comey case to a grand jury, which agreed there was enough evidence to prosecute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump quickly threw his support behind Halligan, saying he was confident she can &#8220;get things moving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Comey&#8217;s defence team had taken issue with the legality of Halligan&#8217;s quick appointment to the role of interim US attorney, a process through which she circumvented congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to her current role, Halligan had been part of a White House effort to remove &#8220;improver ideology&#8221; from the Smithsonian Institution and its museums. She has no previous prosecution experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is Lindsey Halligan?published at 19:13 GMT 19:13 GMT Image source, Getty Images The judge&#8217;s ruling today centres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-281188","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\/281188","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=281188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}