Lawfare Live: Judge Dismisses Indictments Against James Comey and Letita James
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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At 4 pm ET, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and Lawfare Contributor James Pearce to discuss a judge dismissing the indictments against both former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that Lindsey Halligan was not properly appointed to served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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| 0:00.0 | Nearly every news alert in 2025 has raised questions, some old, some new, about the law and national security. |
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| 0:38.2 | It's Lawfare Live, The Now. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm Natalie Orpet, executive editor of Lawfare. |
| 0:43.5 | It is 4 o'clock p.m. Eastern Time on November 24th. |
| 0:48.1 | And I am here with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and Lawfare contributor James Pierce to talk about a district judge |
| 0:56.9 | having dismissed the cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General |
| 1:02.5 | Letitia James. I'm going to give a little bit of context before we get started for folks |
| 1:09.1 | who are not quite as in the weeds as we hear at |
| 1:11.6 | lawfare are, which is to say most everyone in the world. |
| 1:16.3 | So former FBI director Jim Comey was accused of lying to Congress on September, at a September |
| 1:22.3 | 30th, 2020 hearing. |
| 1:24.8 | Letitia James was accused of mortgage fraud relating to a property in Virginia. |
| 1:29.4 | Both have been regular targets of Trump's ire over the years. Both of them in the course of |
| 1:34.9 | their proceedings filed motions to dismiss on a number of grounds. They both filed motions to |
| 1:41.1 | dismiss on the grounds that the prosecutor in both of their cases, who is |
| 1:45.5 | interim U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan, or is it, question mark, was unlawfully appointed. |
| 1:54.1 | So that motion for each of their cases was consolidated before Judge Curry, who is a judge |
| 1:59.7 | that neither of them has in the rest of their |
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