A federal judge ruled in favor of the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday, dismissing felony charges against aircraft giant Boeing in relation to two commercial plane crashes that claimed the lives of 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Judge Reed O’Connor accepted the DOJ's motion to dismiss in the Northern District of Texas.

Boeing, which previously agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government, made a deal with the Trump administration in May in return for the charges — tied to the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes in October 2018 and March 2019 — being dropped.

O’Connor, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, said that despite some victims' families' opposition, the government did not act with bad faith, provided conclusory reasons for its dismissal, and satisfied its obligations under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, Politico reported.

The non-prosecution agreement requires Boeing to pay more than $1.1 billion in fines, more than $455 million to strengthen the company’s compliance, safety and quality programs, and an additional $445 million for the crash victims’ families, a DOJ spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

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"On top of the financial investments, Boeing must continue to improve the effectiveness of its anti-fraud compliance and ethics program and retain an independent compliance consultant," the spokesperson wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.

O'Connor noted it disregards the need for the company to be monitored by an unbiased consultant, as Boeing can choose who it hires, and said he understood families may be disappointed the agreement "fails to secure the necessary accountability to ensure the safety of the flying public," according to the report.

Tracy Brammeier, partner of Clifford Law Offices who serves on the plaintiff's team, said there would be a quick appeal of O'Connor's Thursday ruling.

"The judge recognizes there is a miscarriage of justice on the part of the government's decision not to prosecute the case, and that this was not in the best interest of the public, which the government serves," Brammeier wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Unfortunately, he feels the power to right this wrong is limited by legal precedent. The families are disappointed by the outcome but will act quickly to protect the interests of the families and the public on appeal."

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Three cases involving families of victims in the 2019 crash were settled Wednesday after jury selection, including a case on behalf of a 28-year-old mother from Kenya who left behind a daughter and her parents, Clifford Law Offices wrote in a news release.

The other two cases that settled were that of a 38-year-old father of seven from Yemen and Kenya, and a 30-year-old father of three from the UK and Kenya, who left behind a pregnant wife, according to Clifford Law Offices.

Flight ET-302 crashed in March 2019 shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia, heading to Kenya and killing all 157 on board.

According to the attorneys, nearly a dozen cases related to the two crashes remain unresolved.

A DOJ spokesperson told Fox News Digital "victims are at the heart of the Department’s mission" and the Boeing case is no exception. 

"Rather than allow for protracted litigation, this agreement provides finality for the victims and requires Boeing to act now," the spokesperson wrote in a statement. "As the Court recognized, the Department in good faith complied with its statutory obligations and met extensively with the crash victims’ families. While they are all experiencing grief, and nothing will diminish their losses, the victims have expressed a broad set of views regarding the resolution, ranging from support to disagreement. Ultimately, in applying the facts, the law, and Department policy, we are confident that this resolution is the most just outcome."

A Boeing spokesperson told Fox News Digital the company is "committed to honoring the obligations of our agreement with the Department of Justice … [and] to continuing the significant efforts we have made as a company to strengthen our safety, quality, and compliance programs."

Democratic lawmakers deflected questions on why the stock market has had success under President Donald Trump in spite of their dark predictions on the administration’s tariffs while speaking with Fox News Digital on Capitol Hill.

Some downplayed the market’s success, indicating that it has no bearing on the country’s true economic pulse.

Asked by Fox News Digital why the stock market is still doing well if Trump’s tariffs are hurting the economy, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., shot back, "The stock market is not the economy."

She insisted that because of the tariffs, Americans "are feeling price crunch when they go to the grocery store, prices are high."

"The tariffs are a cause of that. The tariffs or taxes on Americans," she said. "And that's why those prices are higher. And that is why I fought against it."

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Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., told Fox News Digital that she believes the stock market is only doing well "because the billionaires are continuing to do well."

"Corporations got massive tax breaks, $7 billion in tax breaks in the big, bad betrayal bill," said Jayapal. "That's why the stock market's doing well, because the stock is really, you know, a lot of those large companies feel like they're doing just fine, they're continuing to get huge tax breaks."

Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., said that "no matter what the stock market is saying, [Americans] are seeing the cost of groceries have not gone down. They are seeing that health care costs have become really exorbitant. They can't afford it. They can’t afford the cost of goods."

"That is what they expect us to respond to, is how it is affecting them and their everyday lives. And that's what I am here and focused on doing," she went on.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital that "everybody in America knows that the price of goods subject to the tariffs are higher."

"The stock market matters to a lot of folks, but prices matter the most to people. And right now, people are hurting because of Trump's economic policies, including the tariffs," he said. "This is not what Democrats are saying. It's just a fact that tariffs are costing consumers thousands of dollars."

The Trump administration, meanwhile, has blamed the Biden administration for the persistent high prices at grocery stores rather than the tariffs.

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On Friday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X, urging Americans to "TRUST IN TRUMP," saying that the president’s "pro-growth policies are a proven formula to Make America Affordable Again. They worked in his first term, and they are slowly but surely working now."

"President Trump and his entire Administration, from the NEC to Treasury to USDA, are working hard every day to address the affordability issues created by Joe Biden, who unleashed the worst inflation crisis in modern American history — something the liberal media barely blamed the Democrats for over the past 4 years."

Leavitt wrote that "the price of eggs, butter, ice cream, fresh fruit, cereal, fish, seafood, rice, pasta, and ham are all falling," adding that "the best is yet to come."

Back on Capitol Hill, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., echoed this sentiment, saying, "The point that [Democrats] are missing is that [Trump] is trying to get us better terms from all the countries that we export to, trying to get a level playing field, trying to grow our exports."

"You have to separate the short term from what's going to happen over time," he explained. "They're trying to make the argument in the short term because of some of the challenges of getting other countries to play fair."

"You have to work through this process," Hoeven went on. "The president did it in his first term, and we ended up with huge sales to China and other places, and that helped our ag markets and our other exports. And so, it's the same thing again; he is working to make sure we get better trade terms for all of our manufacturers, processors, farmers, and everyone else. But it doesn't happen in one day, it doesn't happen overnight."

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Trump’s tariffs are not all universally reviled by Democrats. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told Fox News Digital, "I agree with some of the tariffs, especially with like China."

"But I didn't agree with going after Canada and our allies," he went on. "In some circumstances, like it's steel, it is appropriate. I don't necessarily agree on some of the other ones."

Fetterman added that "now it seems like the Supreme Court might be voting against that now. So ultimately, their opinion counts a lot more than mine."

Faced with the question of why the market continues to perform well despite the tariffs, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., answered, "One thing I’ve learned is not to try to predict or analyze the stock market."