Expect the Comey and James Indictments to Be Dismissed Without Prejudice

In the end, there just is not a good answer to the question.
I’m speaking of a question posed by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie to the government lawyers who are slated to try the Trump Justice Department’s prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and incumbent New York Attorney General Letitia James...

Judge Currie wanted to know why, if Attorney General Pamela Bondi had legitimately appointed Halligan as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVa), it was necessary for the AG, over a month later, to make a second appointment under different statutory authority — which Bondi tried to backdate to a time before the Comey and James indictments.

https://archive.ph/VgH4U

 

So McCarthy expects the government to try again to indict. Even though the statute of limitations would ordinarily mean the end of the case, Federal law allows a 6 month extension if an indictment is brought but is then overruled. However there still remains the weakness of the evidence itself and the fact that the government never clearly stated what the crime allegedly committed by Comey actually was.

Seems they are above the law. Funny that, after the forum left assured us millions of times during the failed anti Trump lawfare, that we are ALL ewual under the law.

AFAIK perjury and mortgage fraud are illegal. Certainly more illegal than paying back a loan on time.

Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

Seems they are above the law. Funny that, after the forum left assured us millions of times during the failed anti Trump lawfare, that we are ALL ewual under the law.

AFAIK perjury and mortgage fraud are illegal. Certainly more illegal than paying back a loan on time.

And people who actually commit those crimes should be punished. But anyone who has paid any detailed attention to these cases knows that Comey didn't actually do what the government alleged and that James' mortgage contract specifically allows her to rent the home provided it's not done through a third party

 

We also know that several inspectors who were investigating the legality of Bill Pullte providing confidential documents to the 

DOJ got fired. 

 

Judge says James Comey indictment may be tainted by ‘profound investigative missteps’

 

Updated Nov 17, 2025, 1:48 PM ET

 

A federal judge on Monday scorched the Justice Department’s handling of years-old evidence in its case against former FBI Director James Comey, raising the possibility that the indictment may be tainted.

 

“The record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding,” Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick of the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in an opinion released Monday.

 

Fitzpatrick’s finding that Comey’s rights may have been violated with the use of the evidence collected in another investigation more than five years ago sets the table for Comey’s team to make a more robust challenge of the indictment and ask the court to dismiss it.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/17/politics/james-comey-indictment-tainted-judge-halligan

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It is extremely unusual for judges to examine how prosecutors act in front of grand juries, let alone to openly criticize their conduct. But that is exactly what Judge Fitzpatrick did to Ms. Halligan.

 

He noted that during her grand jury presentation she appears to have misrepresented a basic tenet of the law by suggesting that Mr. Comey did not have the right, under the Fifth Amendment, to avoid testifying at his own trial.

 

She also appears to have made another astonishing error, Judge Fitzpatrick said. In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely “on the record before them” to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead “could be assured the government had more evidence — perhaps better evidence — that would be presented at trial.”

 

NY Times via https://archive.ph/PMP9y