#comey-prosecution

#comey-prosecution

Yesterday, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie tossed the Trump administration's slapdash effort to criminally prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, noting that the purported U.S. Attorney behind the prosecution had all the legal authority of three raccoons in a trench coat. Alas, the role of "Kinda Sorta Interim-ish U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia," is not so much "real," with the statutory authority provided to the actual interim U.S. Attorney having expired months ago.

It's been plain from the start that the Justice Department's prosecution of James Comey springs from Donald Trump's desire for payback against a bitter political enemy. Exhibit A: the president's own September 20, 2025, Truth Social post, stating exactly that. Now it seems that the DOJ has coupled bad motives with straightforward incompetence. When rookie prosecutors take over complicated cases, rookie mistakes happen.

A federal magistrate judge said today that the criminal case against James Comey, the former FBI director, could be in trouble because of a series of apparent errors committed in front of the grand jury by Lindsey Halligan, the inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to oversee the matter. The judge's statement is what The Times describes as a, quote, remarkable rebuke of Lindsey Halligan.