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Related: About this forum🚨 Trump FACES DISMISSAL as Comey GOES NUCLEAR ON HIM - Meidas Touch
In breaking news, Former FBI Director Comey has gone nuclear, filing today his motion to disqualify prosecutor and Trump pet Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney and to have his indictment dismissed forever, and wait until you find out what MAGA U.S. Supreme Court Justice secret memo from 1984 now leaked is being used to help out Comeys motion now! Michael Popok brings the receipts on his latest hot take. - 10/20/2025.
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🚨 Trump FACES DISMISSAL as Comey GOES NUCLEAR ON HIM - Meidas Touch (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
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red dog 1
(32,016 posts)1. K&R
Q) - Will Samuel Alito try to distance himself from a memo he wrote 40 years ago?
A) - Of course he will. He's a MAGAt!
Rhiannon12866
(245,497 posts)2. And what will be his excuse??
LetMyPeopleVote
(171,853 posts)3. Comey seeks to have indictment tossed for vindictive prosecution, questions about prosecutor's appointment
There are two motions. The first motion deals with vindictive prosecution. A separate motion addresses the appointment of Halligan as special counsel. That motion will be heard by a different judge.
Comey seeks to have indictment tossed for vindictive prosecution, questions about prosecutor's appointment www.cbsnews.com/news/james-c...
— Lise Latulippe (@liselatulippe.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T20:03:21.107Z
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comey-seeks-indictment-tossed-vindictive-prosecution-fbi-trump/
Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey filed a slate of motions Monday, seeking to have the two-count federal indictment against him dismissed before a potential trial date early next year.
Comey's attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, moved to dismiss the case on the grounds that it is based on a vindictive and unlawful prosecution. He is also challenging the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan to that role.
Comey's attorneys wrote that the charges arose due to an "egregious abuse of power," and there are "multiple glaring constitutional violations" in the indictment. They argued that Mr. Trump ordered prosecutors to charge Comey due to "personal spite" and because Comey had "frequently criticized the President," who fired Comey from his role leading the FBI in 2017 and has sparred with Comey for years......
In a separate motion, attorneys for Comey also argued that Halligan, the only attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia to sign his indictment, "was defectively appointed to her office as an interim U.S. Attorney."
Arguing that "no properly appointed" official from the executive branch had obtained the indictment against Comey, his lawyers said "the indictment is equally a nullity" and should be dismissed.
"The President and Attorney General appointed the President's personal lawyer as interim U.S. Attorney in violation of a clear statutory command so that the interim U.S. Attorney could indict an outspoken critic of the President just days before the relevant statute of limitations was set to expire," Comey's lawyers wrote.
Comey's attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, moved to dismiss the case on the grounds that it is based on a vindictive and unlawful prosecution. He is also challenging the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan to that role.
Comey's attorneys wrote that the charges arose due to an "egregious abuse of power," and there are "multiple glaring constitutional violations" in the indictment. They argued that Mr. Trump ordered prosecutors to charge Comey due to "personal spite" and because Comey had "frequently criticized the President," who fired Comey from his role leading the FBI in 2017 and has sparred with Comey for years......
In a separate motion, attorneys for Comey also argued that Halligan, the only attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia to sign his indictment, "was defectively appointed to her office as an interim U.S. Attorney."
Arguing that "no properly appointed" official from the executive branch had obtained the indictment against Comey, his lawyers said "the indictment is equally a nullity" and should be dismissed.
"The President and Attorney General appointed the President's personal lawyer as interim U.S. Attorney in violation of a clear statutory command so that the interim U.S. Attorney could indict an outspoken critic of the President just days before the relevant statute of limitations was set to expire," Comey's lawyers wrote.
Rhiannon12866
(245,497 posts)4. Thanks so much for the information