All right. Hey, everybody. We are live. I'm joined by an impeccably dressed Andrew Eger.

And hopefully pretty soon, Kyle Cheney of Politico is going to be joining us because neither Andrew

I are lawyers, nor do we cover this stuff on the regular. But the big news today is that James Come,

oh, there he is.

Hi.

Also not a lawyer.

Nah, but you cover this stuff more than we do.

So we're grateful for your entrance here.

Kyle Cheney of Politico's joins us.

We're joining everyone live because the big news now is that the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James have been dismissed.

They were dismissed because the appointed U.S. attorney in this case, Lindsay Halligan,

it was ruled, was illegally appointed.

But, Kyle, before Andrew and I pretend to know what we're talking about,

why don't you tell us what actually is happening?

I may be pretending to here, but

no. I mean, the story is the judge, as we suspected she would, ruled that the Halligan appointment

was flawed from the beginning, that essentially the attorney general violated the appointments

clause and federal law by pointing someone to a role that required, basically at this point, required Senate confirmation.

There had already been an interim U.S. Attorney who served for the legal limit of 120 days.

And once he was forced out, that's Eric Seabird was forced out, that you couldn't just appoint a new interim.

You had to get a Senate confirmed person in there.

And so essentially it unwinds everything.

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