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Former FBI Director James Comey got another assist from a Clinton-appointed judge Friday as the Justice Department looks to hold him accountable for his role in Russiagate. Last month, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee, ruled that Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was incorrectly appointed and therefore, the charges brought by her office against Comey were “defective.” “All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment … constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside,” the judge wrote. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced at the time that the Justice Department would be appealing the ruling....

Drip, drip, drip: A newly-declassified timeline exposes how the FBI's investigation of the Clinton Foundation was hamstrung by DOJ leaders while the inquiry into Trump-Russia collusion hoax marched forward. This isn't the first tranche of evidence pointing to political interference. A top Republican senator has provided Just the News a timeline written by FBI investigators laying out the repeated political obstruction those agents faced from their own bosses and the Justice Department during the 2016 election and beyond as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation. “Field agents were frustrated. But HQ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly considering pursuing new indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) after a federal judge dismissed their prior charges in November.Comey had been indicted in late September for making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation. James was indicted in early October for bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Both pleaded not guilty.Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, as RedState reported last week, dismissed both cases while ruling that the interim U.S. Attorney who brought the charges, Lindsey Halligan, was unconstitutionally appointed.The...

United States District Court Judge Cameron M. Currie, sitting by designation in the Eastern District of Virginia, yesterday dismissed the federal indictments against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James. At the crux of the court order is the judge’s finding that President Donald J. Trump’s administration unlawfully appointed Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. Attorney who signed the Comey and James indictments. Taking the now familiar TDS cheap shot, the court order opens with a description of the U.S. Attorney as “a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience.” Attorney General Pamela J....

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James. The case was dismissed without prejudice. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee ruled that US Attorney Lindsey Halligan was invalidly appointed: For the reasons set forth above, it is hereby ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows: 1. The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. 2. All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey’s indictment, were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set...

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to target Trump’s political opponents. It also highlights its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases. The orders make Lindsey Halligan the latest Trump administration prosecutor to be disqualified because of the manner in...

Svetlana Lokhova outlines the current happenings in the Comey case – Big picture and in Virginia. Here are her thoughts: What’s happening the in the Comey case? There is the big picture and the specific Virginia proceedings. Big Picture Comey is going to be a key defendant in the Grand Conspiracy case now underway in Florida. No statute of limitations on conspiracy. He is one of the recipients of a Florida subpoena. The case centers on the Russiagate Conspiracy against Donald Trump by Obama, Hillary, Soros, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, McCabe and others. The Conspiracy is the Hillary Clinton Plan to...

A federal judge ordered prosecutors Monday to turn over secret grand jury records in the case against former FBI Director James Comey to his legal team Monday, calling out “a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that … potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.”And one legal expert said the bombshell decision could spell disaster for the prosecution against Comey and potentially be a huge embarrassment for the whole Department of Justice.In a 24-page ruling, US Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick accused the feds of flouting attorney-client privilege to secure an indictment of President Trump’s longtime nemesis, ripped...

Lindsey Halligan Shows More Receipts

The Justice Department moved Thursday to block a federal magistrate judge’s order requiring prosecutors to immediately turn over grand jury materials in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick stunned prosecutors Wednesday when he made the rare decision to order them to provide the materials to Comey’s defense team by the end of Thursday, expressing concern that the Department of Justice may have “indicted first and investigated later.”Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied to Congress in 2020 about authorizing leaks to the media concerning the Hillary Clinton email investigation...

Did Maurene Comey try to set up Trump? The Jeffrey Epstein trafficking ring keeps bringing revelations to the public, both in the US and in the UK. Now, it arises that Epstein once claimed federal prosecutors offered him to ‘walk free’ if only he agreed to implicate president Donald J. Trump in his crimes, according to the late pedophile’s ex-cellmate. The New York Post reported: “After his arrest on child sex-trafficking charges in July 2019, Epstein was transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan — where he shared a cell with ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who was awaiting trial before...

Nicolle Wallace tied the knot with Michael S. Schmidt over the weekend, Page Six can exclusively reveal. The MSNBC anchor and Schmidt married on Saturday in an intimate ceremony surrounded by immediate family, a spokesperson for the network confirmed to Page Six.

We first heard of Lindsey Halligan working for President Trump after the illegal Mar-a-Lago raid. The crooked Biden regime authorized the raid in an effort to steal documents that the President rightly held in his possession. Halligan was on Hannity to discuss what happened and the corruption in the elections and more. Lindsey Halligan, who brought us the historic, unprecedented indictment of corrupt criminal Jim Comey, has always been fighting for President Trump and for truth and accountability. Here is her interview as Pres Trump’s lawyer defending him from the FBI goons and Jack Smith responsible for the raid on...

Before you add John Bolton’s indictment to the growing pile of specious prosecutions of Donald Trump’s enemies, stop and read the Justice Department’s allegations that the former national security adviser systematically shared classified information with people who weren’t authorized to read it, all in the service of writing a tell-all book. The 18-count criminal indictment, filed yesterday, was compiled by experienced prosecutors, not political lackeys. It is detailed and precise, and relies on Bolton’s own words to implicate him. You should question whether these charges would be brought if Trump weren’t president. Officials in Joe Biden’s administration passed on the...

According to the Inspector General Report, several memos were shared with the Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman. Richman is expected to be a central witness in the pending federal prosecution against Comey in Virginia for allegedly lying about his role in media leaks. The Inspector General also found attorney Patrick Fitzgerald received multiple Comey memos about the Trump meetings, including at least one memo containing classified information. Fitzgerald is now representing Comey in the Virginia case. Question: Is there a conflict, or the appearance of a conflict? Does it cross any legal or ethical red lines? Richman has not responded...

In his Loyal Opposition blog, New York Times ed page editor Andrew Rosenthal goes after the Justice Department’s decision to prosecute former CIA officer, former Democratic Senate staffer and Huffington Post blogger John Kiriakou for leaking classified information — including the names of CIA operatives — to journalists. Rosenthal writes, That may seem simple: CIA officer, classified information disclosed, prison. But take a closer look. He’s been charged with revealing that two men accused of organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, were tortured. So the man who blew the whistle on torture may go to...

The New York state attorney general was indicted on charges related to alleged mortgage fraud — but the case looks like an unconstitutional selective prosecution.In the same jurisdiction in which the Trump Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey more than a week ago, the same prosecutor who brought that case has now gone after another Trump enemy: New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James. (Disclosure: I worked as a volunteer member of James' transition team after her election in 2018.)The reason for the indictment? James is accused of having falsified a mortgage application on a property purchased in...

A third of Republicans support deporting citizens who disagree with Donald TrumpMost presidential hopefuls make hokey promises to fix the economy, heal divisions or restore America’s promise. Donald Trump offered something different. “For those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution,” he promised the crowd at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference. Since his inauguration in January that vengeance has come relentlessly. The administration has ordered investigations into former Biden aides, bullied some of the country’s most powerful law firms and cut federal funding for universities. Two weeks ago James Comey, the onetime FBI director who was...

"Are you aware that James Comey used to be a communist. In a 2003 interview with New York Magazine, James Comey said before voting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, he'd been a communist. He admitted 'I moved from Communist to whatever I am now' ... The CIA Director and the FBI Director [under Obama] both had histories of not just flirtation, but serious immersion into communism. And like the KGB always said, 'No one ever leaves, the KGB,' Nobody ever leaves this way of thinking." SNIP

Comey's letter, submitted under penalty of law, prompts committee to withdraw deposition demand The House Oversight Committee has dropped its subpoena for former FBI Director James Comey, after he said he had no knowledge relevant to the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, The Hill reported, citing a letter Comey sent to the committee. In the Oct. 1 letter sent to Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky, Comey said he had no "knowledge" or "information relevant to the Committee’s investigation" into the late pedophile. Comey was slated to sit for a deposition on Tuesday before the committee that is examining Epstein’s contacts...