We're following the breaking news that Nicole's been following. The Trump, DOJ, dealt this huge loss in court today.

This is a bigger and faster rebuke than expected. It's a setback to Donald Trump's wider plots to try to see if he can get away with something that is considered illegal and unlawful, the selective prosecution of his perceived opponents.

Well, today he ran into a brick wall,

a federal judge dismissing it outright. And let me walk you through right now each piece of it.

We've been covering this today, but there are several components. One, the judge dismissing the charges against former FBI director James Comey. That's a rebuke to their effort to go after a critic

who Trump has basically been clashing with and attacking since the first year of his first term.

And that's not all. The judge also tossing Trump's recent case against New York Attorney General

Letitia James. And that's because of the person you see on your screen.

Both cases, the judge found today, have the same legally fatal flaw. Her name is Lindsay Halligan.

And she is not, as of this hour, anymore a prosecutor. They ruled that she was basically powerless

to bring these cases. Trump's hand-picked attorney, Lindsay Halligan, was illegally installed.

She brought both these cases. And remember, it was a move of legal desperation that she acted alone.

Now, this matters what I'm about to tell you, because it affects a lot of the pending plots that Trump has.

The evidence against Comey, for example, was so thin they could not get the sitting Trump appointee to bring the case.

This was someone who, circa this year, Trump 2025, was willing to work for Donald Trump, was willing to do all that,

but wouldn't bring a Comey case. So they replaced him with Halligan. She's kind of the temp

lawyer. They couldn't get any other DOJ lawyers to join her crusades on these cases. And that might sound like a

technicality. If you watch our channel, we've heard lawyers and experts discuss this, but okay,

Ari, who cares? Well, tonight you see why the law cares, because no other career, nonpartisan

lawyers would sign on to what they viewed as insufficient evidence or even a

potentially unlawful indictment. So the indictments were only brought by her. And the court has now found

tonight, this is brand new. First time this has happened this year, first time any lawyer has been

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