Criminal cases have been dismissed against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. A federal judge concluded that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. It’s a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to target the president’s political opponents. The judge’s order deals exclusively with the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U-S attorney. She was a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience tapped to lead one of DOJ’s most elite offices.