The filing hit many of the same notes as a similar motion filed last month by fmr FBI dir #JamesComey, who is charged w/ lying to Congress & has asked the judge overseeing his case to dismiss it.

Both Comey’s indictment & the one against #LetitiaJames were secured by the same prosecutor— #LindseyHalligan, Eastern District of Virginia interim #USattorney whom #Trump installed in the post after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, refused to move forward with the cases, citing a lack of evidence.

#law

An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras, four sources said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/04/world/crime-legal/fbi-comey-perp-walk-refusal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #fbi #jamescomey #donaldtrump

The Justice Department's indictment of the former FBI director appears to follow the Putin playbook: discredit the system to protect yourself. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/29/comey-indictment-subverts-trump-credibility/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #doj #fbi #jamescomey #andrewmccabe #pambondi

"Donald can keep trying to distract us, but he has to get increasingly hyperbolic in order to do it. He has to go after bigger and bigger targets. And part of that, yes, is distraction, but part of it is also about assuaging his need for attention or to make him feel like a tough guy. he more he fails, the more desperate he gets."

~ Mary L. Trump

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/todays-top-political-news-with-mary-a34

The 2-page indictment of #JamesComey, the fmr #FBI director, contains so little detail that #legal experts said it was hard to assess its merits.
…The brief indictment was signed by Lindsey Halligan, a[nother] fmr defense lawyer for #Trump whom he had appointed just days earlier as the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia—& whose first courtroom experience [ever] came when she presented the case, alone, on Thursday.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/comey-indictment-legal-reaction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"So of course, he’s also going to continue going after people who don’t have power, who can’t fight back, who can’t make him look bad, and mock him."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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"Donald can keep trying to distract us, but he has to get increasingly hyperbolic in order to do it. He has to go after bigger and bigger targets. And part of that, yes, is distraction, but part of it is also about assuaging his need for attention or to make him feel like a tough guy. he more he fails, the more desperate he gets."

~ Mary L. Trump

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/todays-top-political-news-with-mary-a34

"Why might this have finally crossed the Rubicon? Because Trump has now openly declared himself a despot by going after political enemies because they are enemies, without reasonable legal grounds. This is what despots do, often with consequences."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-question-of-the-day

"Misusing the power to imprison people is uniquely chilling in a free society. Our country has entered a grave new period of injustice."

~ New York Times

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-justice-department.html

"[Trump's attack on James Comey is], quite simply, is a ‘break glass’ moment in American politics."

~ Andrew Weissman

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #JamesComey
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/comeys-indictment-is-the-break-glass

The 2-page indictment of #JamesComey, the fmr #FBI director, contains so little detail that #legal experts said it was hard to assess its merits.
…The brief indictment was signed by Lindsey Halligan, a[nother] fmr defense lawyer for #Trump whom he had appointed just days earlier as the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia—& whose first courtroom experience [ever] came when she presented the case, alone, on Thursday.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/comey-indictment-legal-reaction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The U.S. criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey shatters norms of independence in federal investigations and will face significant hurdles in court, according to legal experts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/27/world/politics/trump-comey-opposition-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #us #jamescomey #republicans #democrats

James Comey, ex-chef du FBI et bête noire de Donald Trump, a été inculpé

#JamesComey avait été limogé lors du précédent mandat de #DonaldTrump, alors que l’agence enquêtait sur d’éventuelles ingérences russes dans la campagne 2016 du candidat républicain. Il est poursuivi pour fausse déclaration et entrave à la justice. «Je n’ai pas peur», réplique Comey.

Par Agence France-Presse › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/260925/james-comey-ex-chef-du-fbi-et-bete-noire-de-donald-trump-ete-inculpe?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on criminal charges of false statements and obstruction on Thursday, a person familiar with the move said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/26/world/crime-legal/fbi-comey-trump-charge/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #fbi #jamescomey

His demands came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge 2 of the adversaries he most reviles, #LetitiaJames & #JamesComey, showing how far #Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the #DOJ & breaching the longstanding norm about keeping #politics at a distance from #LawEnforcement.

#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState

#Trump named #JamesComey, the former #FBI director; Senator #AdamSchiff, Democrat of California; & #LetitiaJames, the New York attorney general, saying he was reading about how they were “all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.”

Asked later by reporters about his message for #PamBondi, Trump said, “They have to act. They have to act fast.”

#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #MafiaState

Prosecutor in Epstein case sues Trump justice department over abrupt firing

> Maurene Comey alleges firing was retaliation against father, former #FBI director #JamesComey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/epstein-prosecutor-maurene-comey-lawsuit#MaureneComey#Epstein#DonaldTrump

Prosecutor in Epstein case sues Trump justice department over abrupt firing

> Maurene Comey alleges firing was retaliation against father, former #FBI director #JamesComey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/epstein-prosecutor-maurene-comey-lawsuit#MaureneComey#Epstein#DonaldTrump