A federal judge has dismissed the criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the charges was unlawfully appointed and therefore lacked legal authority to present the case to a grand jury.

Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, sitting by designation in the Eastern District of Virginia, issued the decision on Monday, ruling that President Donald Trump‘s appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney was a violation of federal law.

The filings detail that Halligan, a former White House aide, was “the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand details ⇒

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