A federal judge has thrown out criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, after determining the interim U.S. attorney hand-picked by President Trump to bring the cases was not lawfully appointed. Lindsey Halligan, a former insurance attorney with no prosecutorial experience, was named interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in September after Trump’s previous hand-picked U.S. attorney resigned under pressure from the White House for refusing to bring criminal charges against Trump’s critics. The cases were dismissed “without prejudice,” meaning the Trump administration could try to bring another indictment against Letitia James; meanwhile, the statute of limitations in Comey’s case expired in September.