Comey, James Dispute Prosecutor’s Authority in Court: The Brief

LAWYERS FOR former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James told a federal court today that the charges against them should be dropped because the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, isn’t lawfully allowed to be the interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Chris Strohm and Jimmy Jenkins report.

• “The only thing that matters is if Ms. Halligan had proper authority when she stood in front of the grand jury — and she did not,” Comey’s attorney Ephraim McDowell told US District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie during the first hearing in the high-stakes case. The judge ...