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Federal Judge HUMILIATES Trump DOJ & Judge Cannon

2025-11-25 News & Politics
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Judge Currie Vacates US Attorney Appointment, Derailing Trump-Era Indictments

Understand how a federal judge invalidated the appointment of a key prosecutor, voiding indictments against James Comey and Leticia James, and analyze the Department of Justice's chaotic attempt to salvage the situation.

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  • The Department of Justice (DOJ) is actively scrambling following Judge Currie’s order firing interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan.
  • Judge Currie cited conservative precedents, including rulings by Judge Aileen Cannon, to declare Halligan’s appointment invalid under Section 546.
  • This ruling automatically voids actions derived from Halligan’s office, specifically dismissing indictments against James Comey and Leticia James without prejudice.
  • Comey’s case likely ends permanently because the indictment failure stopped the statute of limitations clock, which has now expired.

This segment analyzes the sweeping implications of Judge Currie’s decision in South Carolina regarding the Eastern District of Virginia’s acting prosecutor. The judge declared Lindsey Halligan improperly appointed, rendering her official acts void. We review the DOJ's panicked public response, the specific constitutional arguments used, and the differing long-term consequences for the cases against James Comey and Leticia James.

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Not so buried in the 2 new orders issued by Judge Currie firing as US Attorney Trump's favorite Lindsey Halligan, are sly references to Trump's favorite federal judge Aileen Cannon who bailed him out of the Mar a Lago criminal case. And then James Comey himself piled on with his own bit of trolling as AG Pam Bondi and MAGA world lose their shite. Popok reports on what happens next as the 18 judges of the Eastern District Virginia fed court start the process of meeting to pick a successor to Halligan and thumb their nose at Trump. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF by MeidasTouch podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595

Top Comments (10)

@ChildofC-53-u2s 2025-11-25

Cannon should be in prison for dragging her feet on the case against Trump. She’s a traitor.

336 23 replies
@RonFL. 2025-11-25

Hasn't Bondi committed a felony by knowingly backdating an official document with the intent to defraud?

233 17 replies
@democracywarrier 2025-11-25

Michael you're so good laying out the corruption.

174 3 replies
@AA-pf9dh 2025-11-25

The order should have been issued “With Prejudice”! The “Talking Heads of the DOJ should be removed, disqualified, disbarred, prosecuted and incarcerated!

172 2 replies
@catherinedonna3858 2025-11-25

Fake prosecutor, fake indictment. Bondi and Halligan should be disbarred!!

151 3 replies
@cindyprasad6293 2025-11-25

Kash, Bondi, and others need to be charged with perjury

131 2 replies
@russellburress6240 2025-11-25

She was not legally appointed she is not qualified as a prosecutor and you can't find a single prosecutor in the Justice Department that was willing to sign on with her despite Pam bondi's ridiculous claims to the contrary

129 2 replies
@DianaFrazier-u2p 2025-11-25

I am so sick of hearing this regimes bull 💩.

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@young-atheart 2025-11-25

How can all attorneys around the country speak highly of her when she has been in the position for 2 weeks. Oh the lies.

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@GlennPenna-w2q 2025-11-25

The lies are so telling. As so as the lie comes they start getting angry and yelling at the press.

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