November 25, 2025
Try Again: Federal Court Dismisses Comey and James Indictments
If we are living in an age of lawfare, this is fast becoming a war of attrition. The dismissal of the indictment of James Comey and Letitia James is the latest twist in the controversial prosecutions of Trump antagonists.
Letitia James immediately posted her own message celebrating the decision, but she may want to focus on the prepositional phrase after the word dismissal: without prejudice. The Administration may still be able to resuscitate these cases.
James’s victory lap on social media is a fitting addition to the opinion, which emphasized the social media postings of President Donald Trump on these cases. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie noted that President Donald Trump demanded the indictment of these and other individuals shortly before the indictments were handed down.
Law seems to have become entirely improvisational in the age of Trump. James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg adopted highly novel legal theories to pursue Trump in New York, including Bragg’s reviving a dead misdemeanor charge and converting it into a multi-count felony indictment. Both cases were denounced by experts across the political spectrum as the raw weaponization of the legal
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