Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley criticized Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s illegally appointed prosecutor, after a judge dismissed two cases she brought against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
After United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that the indictments against Comey and James were invalid on Monday, Fox News host John Roberts noted that Attorney General Pam Bondi had issued a memo to declare that she had “ratified” the indictments in an attempt to insulate the charges in case Halligan was found to be illegally appointed.
“I mean, did the judge take this into consideration? Can the judge still throw out the cases if they’d been ratified by the Attorney General?” Roberts asked Turley.
“He can in the sense that novelty is not good when it comes to criminal indictments,” Turley explained. “And there was a lot of novelty in the final day to get this indictment through. They were right up against the clock. And particularly with Comey, they had rejected one of the counts. And so Halligan sort of put together the other two counts rapidly and then submitted that.”
In the end, Halligan’s last-minute shenanigans to secure indictments had no bearing on the dismissals.
