Trump news at a glance: James Comey, Letitia James welcome judge’s decision to toss criminal cases

Federal judge calls justice department's actions unlawful exercises of executive power' because prosecutor was unlawfully appointed - key US politics stories from Monday 24 November at a glance

A federal judge threw out the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Monday, concluding that the prosecutor handling the case was unlawfully appointed.

Lindsey Halligan, who Trump named the interim US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia in September, had no lawful authority to present the indictment" against the former FBI director and New York attorney general, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, wrote in her opinion.