Judge Stuns D.C. With Ruling on James
Comey, Letitia James
RedState,
by
Bob Hoge
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
11/24/2025 1:43:39 PM
It’s another day ending in “y,” so it’s another day when a federal judge jumps in to thwart the Trump administration.
On Monday, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie tossed the cases against Former FBI Director James Comey and current New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that Attorney General Pam Bondi's appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. The Department of Justice is almost certain to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, the case was dismissed without prejudice, meaning the charges could still be refiled, although in the case of Comey, that may be in doubt given that the statute of limitations has since run.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 11/24/2025 1:54:21 PM (No. 2033613)
Surprised? Nope.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 11/24/2025 2:16:50 PM (No. 2033623)
Stunned??? I'm not stunned. Exactly as I expected.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/24/2025 2:28:50 PM (No. 2033626)
Another Democrat Judge, appointed by Bill Clinton, so what would you expect? They say it’s possible that the Clintons will not comply with a congressional subpoena and if so with be referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution. If that happens look for the Democrats to arrange for this Judge to handle those cases. If not, look for the Democrats to arrange for another Democrat nominated Judge to handle the cases. Then guess what will happen?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Scribelus 11/24/2025 2:35:41 PM (No. 2033630)
Just another Fudge from the apparently inexhaustible Fudgery.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jefftate 11/24/2025 2:35:51 PM (No. 2033631)
I seriously doubt anyone is surprised here given past court rulings. Refile the charges again...and again. Whatever's necessary. The process is the punishment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Older Lady 11/24/2025 2:39:31 PM (No. 2033634)
I am giving up hope on justice in this country. Even the Dems have to know Comey is guilty but he is one of theirs so they find another liberal judge to thwart a case against the despicable Comey and Tish James. He will have to answer for his corruption in the hereafter. I just wish he would have to pay for it in this life.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
czechlist 11/24/2025 2:42:55 PM (No. 2033635)
Not surprised. It is what Trump's lawyers agued about jack smith.
Bondi should know better - or was it done on purpose?
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This stinks. The case is in a Federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. Cameron McGowan Currie was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to a Federal judgeship in the District of South Carolina. Furthermore she retired over a decade ago (in 2013) and assumed "senior status," meaning that she retained her full pay but can be assigned cases which she is entirely free to accept or reject. (Senior Judges are the most imperial of the imperial judiciary.) Judge Currie was assigned this case by Circuit Judge Albert Diaz, an Obama Judge.
There are a number of issues here that cry out for congressional review and corrective legislation: (1) the judiciary outrageously purporting to overrule an Executive Branch personnel decision by the President (in New Jersey a different Circuit even purported to dictate who should serve as an interim US Attorney; (2) the questionable "senior judge status" which from coast to coast has created a de facto "reserve" available as needed by the Resistance Judiciary; and (3) the suspicious assignment of a Clinton Judge by an Obama Judge to a politically charged case. (At least this wasn't a ruling by a magistrate, a separate scandal.)
The Federal Ninth Circuit is jokingly referred to a the "Ninth Circus" but it is merely one "ring" in the national judicial circus Chief Justice John Roberts has allowed to develop.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
singermom9 11/24/2025 3:06:52 PM (No. 2033641)
Big surprise no dem goes to jail for CRIMES.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 11/24/2025 3:07:15 PM (No. 2033643)
Just wondering - - is there a limit on the number of times this sort of thing has to happen before “D.C.” is no longer “stunned” by it? The rest of the country came to expect it ages ago. Once D.C. gets over its shock, many of the rest of us would like it to be corrected. Sad to say, we would be stunned and shocked if that were to happen, and not at all surprised if it doesn’t.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 11/24/2025 3:09:20 PM (No. 2033644)
This was a first year law student error on the part of Pam Bondi's DOJ.
However, the judge is a magistrate judge, and he might be overturned on appeal.
If not, Pam Bondi might be able to re- file charges.
The underlying problem, is the blue paper hold on federal attorneys, along with filibusters.
It is time to get rid of both.
And one more suggestion - call Comey back to testify before congress. And trrey the morbidly obese NY AG separately on each act of mortgage fraud.
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There is no justice.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 11/24/2025 3:33:12 PM (No. 2033650)
Justices against justice in a just world would themselves be thrown in jail.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/24/2025 3:35:48 PM (No. 2033651)
To be fair, if your bringing charges, you better have your T's crossed and you i's dotted.
Unless your a Democrat prosecuting a republican.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/24/2025 4:23:13 PM (No. 2033656)
I will be stunned if this nonsense is not eventually overturned on appeal.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 11/24/2025 4:43:59 PM (No. 2033663)
Another crooked Seep State judge.....which Justice Roberts tells don't exist.
Actually, they are as common as dirt.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/24/2025 4:59:01 PM (No. 2033668)
"Stuns" my rear end. The Swamp entirely expected something like this.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/24/2025 5:00:51 PM (No. 2033670)
Can this be appealed to the Supreme Court? Have largely given up hope that our government will actually govern.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 11/24/2025 5:08:08 PM (No. 2033671)
Dick the Butcher in "Henry VI" got it wrong.
First the Judges,..... THEN the lawyers.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 11/24/2025 5:29:01 PM (No. 2033674)
How does a DC Inferior Court Black Robed Insurrectionist have jurisdiction over a case brought in Virginia?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Birddog 11/24/2025 6:09:39 PM (No. 2033678)
soooo...basically the Judge ruled against TRUMP...not against the charges, nor even the AG. Though trump is not charged, is not a witness, has no part in the case, even though he IS the primary victim. I expect her determination of the legality of the appointment will be revered by a higher court, then she will have to start over...or have it assigned to a different judge.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 11/24/2025 6:47:01 PM (No. 2033680)
This was not at all the same argument as that against Jack Smith. Not even close. I’m very surprised that these comments are even being made.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
dwa 11/24/2025 7:00:38 PM (No. 2033681)
Don't think anyone with a brain is stunned at this Leftist, corrupt judge's ruling. This is just an example of the corrupt judges in DC and NY federal courts who are democrats first and judges second, or democrats in black robes. This is what we can expect for every deep stater that is indicted and even brought to trial where the democrat juries will equit. We no longer have a judicial system in this country.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
buckeye1 11/24/2025 7:12:21 PM (No. 2033685)
This is NOT stunning. This is the new normal in the progressive world. The rot is so deep and entrenched that it will take anore than one election to fix it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 11/24/2025 7:25:24 PM (No. 2033688)
I'd like to blame the judge for all the reasons stated but what the court said was that AG Bondi blew it and the appointed prosecutor did not know any better either. Inexperience and ignorance has caused many a fall, but so has political appoints of the unqualified. it may also be the politicking of the persons involved. Hack judges just require the lawyers to up their games or lose. They are not an excuse for losing. Bondi blew this. I don't know what was on her minds but the improper appointment is entirely on her. This case was a loaded gun and Bondi and her ill-prepared, and maybe ill experienced (maybe a DEI appt.), choice allowed the judge to pull the trigger. Some of those old, old, judges are tough old birds and they don't waste time. Some someone inexperienced or unprepared - sloppy work - and they'll kick them to the curb before they can say, "If it pleases the court." It's interesting to note that this failure keeps Bondi's record of doing nothing intact.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BarryNo 11/24/2025 7:35:37 PM (No. 2033689)
Democrats don't believe in the rule of Law. They believe in the rule of entitlement. If you have a 'D' after yuor name, You're entitled to whatever justice you want.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/24/2025 7:41:09 PM (No. 2033690)
Letting such criminals skate on a technicality is in itself a crime.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JimBob 11/24/2025 9:34:54 PM (No. 2033711)
Without getting into the details, it sounds to me like one crooked Democ'RAT Swamp Critter selected another Democ'RAT Swamp Critter to let a pair of other crooked Democ'RAT Swamp Critters skate.... at least at first.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
homefry 11/25/2025 6:43:49 AM (No. 2033753)
Just like a shithouse fly.
Just annoying without doing anything real. The charges can be brought again, and will be.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
5 handicap 11/25/2025 6:59:14 AM (No. 2033764)
Tell that Hack to pound sand! America can do without any and ALL Clintonites!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
skacmar 11/25/2025 7:04:04 AM (No. 2033766)
Once again, the charges are ignored and the perps, Comey and James, get their cases dismissed on a technicality. The technicality in this case, is the result of silly Senate rules relating to Prosecuting Attorney nominations and time until confirmation. The Senate needs to get rid of archaic rules preventing one or two Senators from holding up confirmation votes (blue slips). Democrats have been using blue slips like some sort of anti Trump game and Republicans just play along.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/25/2025 8:17:30 AM (No. 2033797)
Another liberal SHE judge.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
janjan 11/25/2025 8:23:20 AM (No. 2033803)
No one is stunned. Especially in DC.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/25/2025 8:41:23 AM (No. 2033817)
Legal scholars claim that Bondi is right and I tend to agree. Biden or his Autopen controlled the DOJ for four years with an endless, illegal attack against Donald Trump. He is the Commander in Chief and has the authority to have anybody arrested. This judge should be arrested for malpractice since both Comey and Fattisha both have a pile of evidence backing their crimes and She has no reason to stop the process other than the mental illness of TDS. The DOJ now has six months to go after them again. Comey's statute of limitations has no impact.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/25/2025 8:55:55 AM (No. 2033824)
I predict this leftist partisan hack-tivist Judge will be overturned at the Appeals Court. It won't make it to the Supreme Court for correction, since even the Court of Appeals won't want another "overturn" on their record.
Speaking of which, whenever a Judge's rulings are overturned, why can't we have a system wherein the overturned Judge MUST attend a special court tribunal with the next higher Judges, during which the overturned Judge must is grilled on questions of the Constitution, Federal Statutes, etc. to determine their fitness to sit on the Bench. If they fail review, they're FIRED. If they're called to attend X number of these "sessions," they're FIRED. How else do we get rid of these vile hack-tivist Judges , unless by this mechanism? The normal "Impeach & Remove" procedure is a political endeavor that can turn against the minority Party at any time, but forcing the Courts to clean up their own ranks would have "Judicial authority" behind it first, but with a Legislative "bite," if they fail to address these matters on a constant basis. Start with the "most overturned" Judges in each jurisdiction first, until they've all be interviewed and removed, as required.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
mobyclik 11/25/2025 9:25:21 AM (No. 2033844)
It'll be overturned, but in the meantime, Comey and James are scratching out checks for their scummy lawyers. I know, but at least it's something.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
navybrat 11/25/2025 10:01:25 AM (No. 2033866)
Why was this not handled well before the statute of limitations? I am disappointed in Pam Bondi. She seems to drag her feet on things. She should be replaced. The Attorney General needs to be a pit bull and not someone who has to be prodded by the president to do things and lets deadlines get by.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Zumkopf 11/25/2025 10:04:03 AM (No. 2033867)
You are missing the forest for the trees. Real question is why so many US attorneys have not been given permanent appointments at this point. Blame the Senate and demand action.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/25/2025 10:40:06 AM (No. 2033892)
NOT GUESSING: Crooked Judge is a DEMOCRAP
How much did the DNC pay/promise you Judge?????????????????
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/25/2025 11:12:27 AM (No. 2033913)
"Currie dismissed the indictments without prejudice, but the statute of limitations has already passed for Comey’s case. In a footnote, Currie indicated that the Justice Department could not bring a similar indictment against him. She said that although valid indictments typically toll, or suspend, the statute of limitations, “there is no legitimate peg on which to hang such a judicial limitations-tolling result” with a void indictment."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-dismisses-comey-indictment-says-prosecutor-invalidly-appointed-5949092?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 11/25/2025 11:22:14 AM (No. 2033926)
If Comey and Letitia James escape justice in this world, we know there is a Judge where they won't escape justice, that is God Almighty. We're just praying that these two crooks will pay in this life though.
We have got to come back to "No one is above the law" for the moral, legal and spiritual health of our country therefore we need a national spiritual awakening to clean out the rot in our country.
This is our prayer at our house: Lord, raise up the righteous, and put down the wicked. That's especially true in the judicial branch of our government.
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