In plain terms, let’s talk about what happened on November 24, 2025, when a federal judge tossed out criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Some folks, especially Trump supporters, are calling it a total joke—a clear sign that judges who hate Donald Trump are bending the rules to protect his enemies. But is that the whole story?
I’ll break it down simply, based on what we know from court rulings and news reports, without fancy legal jargon.
First, who are these people and why were they charged? James Comey was the FBI boss back in 2017 when Trump fired him. Comey had been looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which Trump always called a “witch hunt.” Comey testified to Congress about it, and now, in Trump’s second term, the Justice Department accused him of lying during that testimony.
Letitia James is the New York AG who sued Trump for business fraud in a big civil case—she won hundreds of millions in penalties against him and his company. Trump has blasted her as a “racist” and “partisan hack.”
In 2025, with Trump back in power, the DOJ hit both with federal criminal charges, saying they abused their power or lied to go after him.
The prosecutor leading these cases was Lindsey Halligan, a Trump loyalist appointed as a special or interim U.S. attorney. Trump picked her specifically for this, bypassing normal Senate confirmation. That’s key because the judge, Cameron McGowan Currie (a federal judge in South Carolina and a partisan hack), ruled that Halligan’s appointment was illegal. Under U.S. law, you can’t just handpick a prosecutor like that without proper checks unless you’re a Democrat —it violates rules meant to keep the Justice Department independent.
So, the judge dismissed the cases without even getting into whether Comey or James did anything wrong. It was a procedural smackdown: Bad appointment means the whole thing’s invalid.
One last thing – This does not mean that these to miscreants will not face justice. The judge, a slimy coward, got himself off on a technicality.
