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Maurene Comey was illegally fired as federal prosecutor, judge rules

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A federal judge ruled Maurene Comey’s 2025 dismissal as a prosecutor was illegal, highlighting a significant legal challenge to Trump administration personnel decisions.

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Daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, a Trump foe, was dismissed in 2025 despite her work being widely praisedMaurene Comey, the daughter of the former FBI director James Comey, was unlawfully fired from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York last year, a federal judge ruled on Monday.Judge Jesse Furman said that Comey, who was an assistant US attorney for a decade, was illegally fired in July 2025 despite her work on some of the nation’s highest-profile cases and consistently receiving “the highest accolades from supervisors and peers alike”. Continue reading...

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