On Wednesday night, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fired senior Pentagon strategist Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia amid an ongoing probe into leaks of classified information. Lt. Gen. Sylvia served as director of Strategy, Plans and Policy, which is also known…
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to retroactively reinstate and compensate Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, ruling Monday that the administration violated civil service protections when it fired her as a Manhattan prosecutor. The…
“Comey’s supervisors and peers consistently lauded her work, describing her as a ‘brilliant lawyer and a gifted supervisor,’ ‘the lawyer the office turns to when legal excellence is a must,’ and ‘an outstanding AUSA in every respect’ with ‘judgment, work…
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration’s firing of two Democrats who served on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was illegal. Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…
A group of immigration judges, including one from Massachusetts, are demanding to know why the Trump administration fired them despite a massive backlog in the Executive Office of Immigration Review, records show. Among those suddenly terminated in February was Kerry…
Judge Andrew Napolitano questions whether the Justice Department’s case against James Comey will hold up in court, citing statute of limitations concerns and weak evidence. The Newsmax legal analyst argues charges lack evidence of intent to harm the government, while…
NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The abrupt firing of Maurene Comey as a federal prosecutor by President Donald Trump's administration was unlawful, a US judge ruled on Monday in a victory for the eldest daughter of former FBI director and longtime…
A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration’s 2025 firing of former Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey violated the constitutional separation of powers and federal civil service law, setting a marker ahead of other litigation challenging a rash of…
James Comey has another massive legal migraine, and the judge who’s been handed his newest criminal case is someone Donald Trump personally appointed to the federal bench. Sounds like great news, right? Well, maybe… but before anybody starts popping the…
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Justice Department unlawfully fired Maurene Comey, the former Manhattan federal prosecutor who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases and the daughter of ex-FBI Director James Comey, and ordered her reinstated…
Firings, purges, resignations and fights inside the FBI and the Justice Department, and the political pressure on them.
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