100 former DOJ officials urge Comey indictment be dropped
BY Maddie Gannon Washington, D.C.
PUBLISHED 2:00 PM ET Oct. 28, 2025
The signatories, which include former attorneys general, deputy attorneys general, solicitors general, United States attorneys and more, referred to the indictment of President Donald Trump’s long-time political foe as a “vindictive and targeted” prosecution and urged the federal judge in Virginia overseeing the case to dismiss it.
In the filing, the group specifically pointed to social media posts from the president in which he railed against Comey, including the one days before the former FBI chief was charged, calling the timeline a “striking sequence of events” unlike anything they “ever witnessed during their many collective years of service within the Department of Justice.”
"Taken together, the totality of these circumstances indicate that the indictment of this defendant was not an exercise of the evenhanded judgment of a disinterested prosecutor, acting free from personal bias, partisan animus, or divided loyalties — as is required by the Constitution and the Department of Justice’s formal policies," the filing reads. “Instead, it represented an act of personal retribution by the President, acting through a United States Attorney whom he had recently selected.”
The former Justice Department employees went on to make the case that as a result, the charges against Comey violate the Constitution’s Due Process Clause and represent a “dangerous and unprecedented use” of the Justice Department’s authority ...
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