All posts tagged "James Comey"

A federal judge pushed James Comey's arraignment and trial into 2027 while his motions to throw out the case still await a ruling.

U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan granted the delay in an order filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

The order moves the former FBI director's arraignment to January 2027. Comey had asked for trial sometime in February 2027, and Flanagan wrote that the court will set a trial date and filing deadlines after the arraignment if he pleads not guilty....

The daughter of former FBI Director James Comey accused President Donald Trump’s Justice Department of resorting to “legal contortions” to defend her abrupt firing as a federal prosecutor.

Maurene Comey’s lawyer, Ellen Blain, made the argument during a hearing Friday over Comey’s lawsuit seeking her reinstatement, Politico reported.

Blain accused the Justice Department of claiming virtually unchecked power to “fire a civil servant because of her DNA.”...

Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey argued that federal prosecutors charged him under the wrong law, dooming their case.

In a Tuesday court filing, Comey's attorneys contended that the Trump administration's case against him cannot survive its own legal theory. The Department of Justice is accusing Comey of threatening President Donald Trump after he posted a photo showing seashells arranged to read "86 47."

According to the Trump administration, an "objective viewer" could read the post to mean "Kill President Donald Trump," the court filing noted. Comey's lawyers argue the charge fails even if that reading were correct. ...

The Department of Justice rookie prosecutor who's been leading the effort to charge former FBI Director James Comey stepped off the case, NBC News reported.

Matthew Petracca, an assistant U.S. attorney, brought the case to a federal grand jury for the second indictment against Comey because of his sheashell photo. NBC News found in a court filing that Petracca is no longer on the case, per a court filing.

The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, where Petracca worked, requested that he "be removed from the court's docket as counsel for the government," the two-page filing stated, without offering details. ...

A federal judge delivered an embarrassing response to a Department of Justice lawyer who was defending Trump from a lawsuit, according to a new report by Politico.

The lawsuit stems from the firing of Maurene Comey, the daughter of the former FBI Director, who's been targeted by two Trump DOJ indictments. Maurene Comey was a DOJ prosecutor who had a key role in the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

She was fired last year via a letter that only cited the presidential powers outlined in Article II of the Constitution, according to previous reporting by Politico. ...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's gushing comments about Trump have an ex-prosecutor sounding the alarm and suggesting it could land Blanche in legal trouble.

In early April, Blanche said he would tell Trump, "Thank you very much. I love you, sir," if the president passed him over for the permanent AG role and kicked him out of the White House.

Glenn Kirschner, a former prosecutor, said on the Jim Acosta Show on Tuesday that those comments could be a problem for Blanche. ...