A federal judge in New York has decided that the Justice Department broke the law when it dismissed prosecutor Maurene Comey. She is the daughter of James B. Comey, the former FBI director. The ruling came on Monday.
\n\nU.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York sided with Comey. In a 55-page opinion, he rejected the government’s argument that it could remove her at will. He wrote that the defense “flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent.”
\n\nFurman, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, also warned about what the other side’s reasoning would mean. Accepting it, he said, would upset the balance built into the country’s constitutional system.
\n\nHe ordered the Justice Department to reinstate Comey retroactively. She is also owed back pay for the stretch between her firing in July 2025 and December 2025, when she started at a private law firm.
\n\nThe Justice Department made a different case. Its lawyers said a federal prosecutor in New York works for the executive branch, so the president has wide power to end that person’s employment.
\n\nShe was fired on July 16, 2025, not long after Combs’s trial ended in…
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