A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Newly free from criminal indictment by the Trump administration that he said was “based on malevolence and incompetence,” former FBI director James Comey celebrated his victory on Monday with tempered expectations for the future.

The Sept. 25 grand jury transcript “conclusively refutes” that there was an issue with the voting process, prosecutors said.

In a blistering opinion over how the DOJ brought charges against ex-FBI Director James Comey, a judge said there may be grounds to toss the case.

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey on Friday moved to dismiss the criminal case against him, arguing there were "fundamental errors in the grand jury process."

The Trump-appointed prosecutor overseeing the James Comey case is insisting in a new court filing that the full grand jury approved the final indictment against the former FBI director.

Lindsey Halligan, the interim US attorney who secured the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, admitted to the trial judge Wednesday that the full grand jury