A federal judge on Monday ordered the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to be dismissed on the grounds that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who secured their indictments, was unlawfully appointed to the role. The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie are a significant victory for Comey and James, who both argued their prosecutions are retaliatory and motivated by President Trump's efforts to punish his political foes. "I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside," Currie wrote in her opinion in the Comey case, a line that she repeated in her ruling in the James case...

A federal judge dismissed the cases against two of President Trump's political adversaries on Monday after finding that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue charges against them was unlawfully appointed. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney selected by Trump to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), was never eligible to assume the post. A 120-day clock on interim appointments expired during the previous prosecutor's tenure, the judge said, meaning the authority to appoint a replacement fell with the district's federal judges, not Attorney General Pam Bondi...

A federal judge dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, ruling that President Donald Trump's interim U.S. attorney in Virginia had no constitutional authority to bring either case. Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie issued back-to-back orders invalidating every action taken by Lindsey Halligan, Trump's former personal lawyer-turned-federal prosecutor, after finding that her appointment violated federal law and the appointments clause. The cases were consolidated for the purpose of deciding whether Halligan's authority was lawful...

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by Victor Davis Hanson, Activist Post: The climate creed that once ruled unquestioned is cracking as energy needs, geopolitical reality, and basic science force the West to admit carbon isn’t dying anytime soon. For decades, the monolithic and sacrosanct international climate change hierarchy went unquestioned. Western nations in particular spent trillions of dollars over the […]

by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream: It feels like peace is slipping away.  In the Middle East, Israel is fighting with both Hamas and Hezbollah once again.  In Europe, the Ukrainians and our European allies have rejected President Trump’s 28 point peace plan.  Meanwhile, the Russians continue to march forward and capture more […]

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