Trump DOJ called out for ‘humiliating defeat’

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00:00Trump, DOJ called out for humiliating defeat.

00:05A federal judge has dismissed indictments against former FBI Director James Comey

00:09and New York Attorney General Letitia James,

00:12delivering what one former prosecutor called a humiliating defeat

00:16for President Donald Trump's Justice Department.

00:19Choose your own adventure of procedural errors.

00:23This ruling comes after Judge Cameron McGowan-Curry

00:25found that Trump's hand-picked prosecutor,

00:28Lindsay Halligan, was unlawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney

00:32for the Eastern District of Virginia.

00:34She called the case a choose-your-own-adventure of procedural errors.

00:39Doomed from the start.

00:41Former D.C. prosecutor Elise Adamson said the case was practically doomed from the start.

00:46And indeed, the court agreed that she wasn't lawfully appointed.

00:49And the problem here is that Halligan did everything on her own.

00:52And so now these indictments can't stand.

00:55The charges.

00:55Halligan indicted Comey on two charges,

00:59making false statements to Congress

01:00and obstructing a congressional proceeding.

01:03Judge Curry ruled that

01:04all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment

01:07were unlawful exercises of executive power

01:10and are hereby set aside,

01:12resulting in the dismissal of both Comey's and James' indictments.

01:16New precedent.

01:18Similar procedural issues have occurred before,

01:21such as in Trump's classified documents case.

01:23Usually, DOJ follows proper process and procedure,

01:26Adamson said.