Attorneys for Comey, James set to challenge appointment of Trump-installed prosecutor

Source: abc



Lawyers for the two will argue that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed.

By Alexander Mallin, Katherine Faulders, and Nicholas Kerr
November 13, 2025, 8:50 AM


Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James return to court Thursday to press for a judge to throw out their criminal indictments on the basis that the Trump-installed prosecutor who charged them was appointed unlawfully.

The high-stakes hearing is the latest in a series of crucial tests for the controversial prosecutions of Comey and James, which were brought just weeks apart at the direct urging of President Donald Trump after he removed a previous appointee overseeing the powerful U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia and replaced him with Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and former insurance lawyer with no prior prosecutorial experience.

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The legal challenge comes on the heels of other successful efforts to disqualify prosecutors that the Trump administration had attempted to install in at least three other U.S. attorneys offices in Los Angeles, Nevada and New Jersey beyond the 120-day limit set by federal law.


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