Carrie Johnson
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The judge found the process was invalid, that if the Trump administration wanted to pick a U.S.
attorney, it had to go through the right steps.
Typically, that would be nomination and confirmation by the Senate.
This woman, Lindsay Halligan, has no prior experience as a prosecutor, but she was installed as U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, that's one of the most important offices in the country, on orders from President Trump.
And she got the job only after the White House forced out a career prosecutor.
He expressed doubts about bringing criminal charges against the former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Tish James.
both prominent critics of the president who played a role in investigating him.
They're pretty serious.
This judge, Cameron Curry, wrote, All actions flowing from Lindsay Halligan's defective appointment are unlawful exercises of executive power.
They must be set aside.
Halligan was, of course, the only prosecutor in the grand jury room for the indictments of Jim Comey and Tish James.
She's the only one who signed those indictments.
So now both of those cases are dismissed.
Okay.