At this point, anyone who is left thinking James Comey will stand trial in DC is just pretending for their own agenda. Unfortunately, the dismissal of the case against him is a foregone conclusion.
The DOJ Lawfare embeds purposefully dragged their heels toward the statute of limitations, AG Pam Bondi didn’t respond fast enough to the institutional stonewalling, and that set up Lindsey Halligan for an almost impossible task.
[SOURCE]
Former FBI Director James Comey was leaking information to the media through his friend and FBI Special Government Employee Daniel Richman. When Comey was fired in May 2017, he knew what his risks were. Comey hired Daniel Richman as his personal lawyer and legal counsel. Comey knew this would make targeting him for leaking to media more difficult.
Last month U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, the Biden appointee overseeing the criminal case against Comey, assigned magistrate judge William Fitzpatrick to review the issues surrounding potential violations of attorney-client privilege within the indictment.
Today Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick sides with the Comey defense and blasts the prosecution for violating attorney-client privilege. [SEE RULING HERE] In addition, Judge Fitzpatrick instructs the prosecution, Lindsey Halligan, to give the defense team all of the evidence used in the grand jury indictment.
Fitzpatrick is setting the stage to dismiss the charges. There’s zero doubt about it when you read the 24-page order.
It’s enough to make you blow a blood pressure cuff when you see a judge upholding the Fourth Amendment argument on James Comey’s behalf, considering the blatant Fourth Amendment violations that Comey conspired to violate within his fraudulent investigations of Carter Page and President Trump.
Seriously though, don’t waste any hopium on this case, and expect the judge to require the government to pay all of Comey’s legal fees.
We read enough of this stuff to see a Lawfare set up when it is visible. The Lawfare crew has this case easily won. Judge Fitzpatrick gives the defense eleven points of process with which to file a motion to dismiss.
[COURT ORDER] – First, the facts establish a reasonable basis for the defense to challenge whether the Richman Warrants were executed in a manner consistent with the Fourth Amendment and the orders of the issuing court.
Second, the facts establish a reasonable basis for the defense to challenge whether the government exceeded the scope of the Richman Warrants in 2019 and 2020 by seizing and preserving information that was beyond the scope of the warrants, that is, information that did not constitute evidence of violations of either 18 U.S.C. § 641 or § 793.
Third, the facts establish a reasonable basis for the defense to challenge whether the government had the lawful authority to search the Richman materials anew in 2025.
Fourth, the facts establish a reasonable basis for the defense to challenge whether the government’s 2025 seizure of the Richman materials included information beyond the scope of the original warrants.
Fifth, the nature and circumstances surrounding the government’s potential violations of the Fourth Amendment and court orders establish a reasonable basis to question whether the government’s conduct was willful or in reckless disregard of the law.
Sixth, the facts provide a reasonable basis for the defense to show that they were prejudiced by the government’s use of the Richman materials in the grand jury, particularly if the government’s conduct was willful or reckless, given the centrality of these materials to the government’s presentation.
Seventh, the facts establish a reasonable basis for the defense to challenge whether the government took sufficient steps to avoid the collection and review of privileged materials, including the reasons why Mr. Comey was never afforded the opportunity to assert a privilege over his communications until after the indictment was obtained.
Eighth, the facts establish a reasonable basis for the defense to challenge whether privileged information was used, directly or indirectly, by the government to prepare and present its grand jury presentation. This is particularly troublesome because the government’s sole witness before the grand jury was exposed to a “limited overview” of privileged material shortly before he testified.
Ninth, the nature and circumstances surrounding the disclosure of potentially privileged information establish a reasonable basis to question whether the government’s conduct was willful or in reckless disregard of the law. This is particularly significant because Agent-3, after having been exposed to potentially privileged information, chose to testify before the grand jury rather than separate himself from the investigation to contain any further exposure to privileged information and limit any prejudice to Mr. Comey.
Tenth, as discussed in Section IV above the prosecutor made statements to the grand jurors that could reasonably form the basis for the defense to challenge whether the grand jury proceedings were infected with constitutional error.
Eleventh, the grand jury transcript and recording likely do not reflect the full proceedings because, although it is clear that a second indictment was prepared and presented to the grand jury (ECF 3), the transcript and audio recording of the proceedings do not reflect any further communications after the grand jury began deliberating on the first indictment.
Collectively, the facts set forth herein and the particularized findings of the Court establish that “ground[s] may exist to dismiss the indictment because of a matter that occurred before the grand jury[.]” Rule 6(e)(3)(E)(ii). [more]
There are two tiers of justice. The legal system is as rigged as the intelligence system.
It’s not Halligan’s fault; she tried.



Hate to say I said so, none of these miscreants will see prison or let alone just be convicted of even spitting on the sidewalk. They are the big players for the left and that’s who controls dc and the surrounding area.
History supports your statement.
And when Trump’s term ends he will be in jail along with his family. What about Trump’s attorney privilege that was destroyed by a rogue judge? Lawfare will go after anyone who worked for or with Trump because nobody served any consequences. The country is lost. Just enjoy the next 3 years.
I suspect the real charge the Trump administration is working on in complete secrecy is conspiracy.
They already have the evidence.
Now it’s just timing.
Yes, NY and NYC will go after President Trump and family regardless. President Trump should have devested from NY and NYC long ago. President Trump can pardon on the Federal side. Also any states where there are Trump businesses are a major risk.
Agree. Heads they win and tails we lose. They go for the kill and we can stay unified. They hate America and we play by the rules. Sucks to be us.
That is the case for most urban areas. The Southern District of Florida is probably the only hope and that is far from a given.
Please explain to me if any of the efforts by the Uniparty and the Deep State relate to sedition. Is there a statute of limitatiin related to sedition??? There are so many serious issues related to coordinated efforts to stop President Trump and the MAGA effort. Could the DOJ be planning a major effort before the midterms to address some or all of the following:
Isn’t this yet another Bondi failure or would this still have happened even if, through some miracle, she did do her job?
President Trump must fire her ASAP. This will get the other laggards to act in a timely manner.
How?
definitely a bondi failure. No doubt she insisted on minor charges (lying to “congress”, knowing that even if convicted, Comey would get no more than a “slap on the wrist” as punishment.
The DOJ should have indicted Comey for Treason, as the evidence of his Treason is overwhelming and the corrupt “courts” would have had major problems trying to dismiss charges of that nature.
The whole problem with this corrupted country are the corrupted pos judges
That don’t pay any attention to SC orders.
That’s ’cause the SC is as corrupt as the lesser “courts”
Can’t Forget Lawyers
“All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we’d be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.”
—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), “Breathing Space”, The Baltimore Evening Sun, 1924-08-04. Reprinted in A Carnival of Buncombe.
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
The REAL, underlying, is spiritual—corruption, and our society turning away from God and His Laws!
But, Sin Makes You Stupid/// HT Fr Chad Ripperger, 15+ year EXORCIST
In other news, “The first grand jury failed to indict Comey.”
Durham and Horowitz had all of the same information and submarined the cases. Charge a massive conspiracy to violate DJT’s civil rights under the color of law in Florida and stop fooling around with bs 1001 false statement cases.
Is it possible that his name comes up again?
I don’t understand President Trump’s confidence in AG Bondi. What will it take to show her the door and appoint an interim AG?
He doesn’t have confidence in her, but why would he say that publicly?
He doesn’t have to. He can thank her for her service and replace her. Why would he have to be tied to an incompetent, or worse, duplicitous Uniparty sympathizer?
Hw couldn’t get anyone else approved.
I have been wondering about this for quite some time. Surely President Trump knows how unhappy his base is with Bondi’s job performance almost from Day 1. Now that she is getting death threats, (her admission on FOX) her “deer in the headlights” approach to critical matters is likely to get even worse. Last week she made another appearance on FOX & Hannity asked her some hard ball questions about whether she will go after the leadership in sanctuary cities for obstructing ICE, which she dodged completely, giving some pre-canned generic answer like “We will uphold the law”. She sounded foolish and she looked pretty white around the gills also, IMO.
Bondi got the job through her pal, Susie Wiles, who appears to be a major DS asset, now imbedded in the White House and presumably is a gatekeeper of access to President Trump? Does she control access to the information he sees from social media and the WH website? Who else has Wiley convinced our POTUS to appoint? Why is Wiley there?
I consider Bondi to be Zimmerman’s revenge. President Trump to me, is channeling perhaps unknown to him, a LIFE FORCE ENERGY that is creating almost “instant karma” for anyone even close to his orbit.
Bondi is quite unaware of this of course. As are/were so many others in his current/ previous admin’s.
I really am enjoying the show. I think think musically. I thought of the Led Zeppelin song, ” Your time is going to come” re Comey. Am thinking that I’m going to close my night by listening to the John Lennon song (another assassination) “Instant Karma.”
It’s a VERY interesting time to be alive. I am very grateful to be a witness to the Universe unfolding, as it should and always will. NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE. Jesus Christ did not either.
I don’t believe President Trump knows how the base feels about Bondi. She’s protected by the Gatekeeper – Susie Wiles.
“Blessed are the democrats for they will never experience prosecution!”
Or persecution
Psalm 37:1 brings me comfort. Don’t fret over evil doers. That’s a three-fer in this case.
Bolshevik revolution taking place and considerable conflict coming. Most of the pain will fall on the leftist side of the equation.
Those funding all we see will go hide, when it starts as they always do! But lates make sure we find them this time.
How dumb are these people that repeat this well know failure.
Time to start shedding their blood yet?
I’d say that this totally humiliating loss should be the thing that gets No Stick Pam fired -and replaced with a Rottweiler that aims to chew legs off.
How about that Lindsay Halligan lady?
Or Alina Habba?
Who have we got?
The Senate will dictate who, if anyone, will be confirmed if PB is shown the door.
Remember the Barr scenario?
The President and his several bona fide patriot colleagues are greatly impaired by the broad and deep power of the opposition.
No, it is not Halligan’s fault. It’s Bondi’s, and ultimately Trump’s.
From what I can see, Ms.Halligan has been great, it appears to me that she’s been set up to take the fall from all this, which Pam Bondi did- by not doing!
How is it Trump’s fault? Bondi is the best AG he could pick that could get past Senate confirmation. This is Mitch McConnell’s accomplishment.
BINGO!!!
I dispise the Uniparty!
Thank you Lindsey Halligan for indicting James Comey. We must fight our enemy within at every turn. We are well pleased with you.
Eisen, Richman….
It’s almost like a group of Brooklyn lawyers planned this whole thing. /S
For those of you who are old enough to remember the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the radical left took a physical beating and lost the battle. But they regrouped, won the war and now control the government, media, judicial system and most importantly the educational system from pre-school through college. We are now of no consequence. If our lives were a football game, we are more than halfway into the fourth quarter and hoping for overtime. Our children have been indoctrinated in school and now their focus is on our Grandchildren. Once their brain-washing is complete, the United States of America and all it stood for will be tossed into the trash can of history. The only way to fight is through our Grandchildren.
Always feeling like the lawfare Dems are always 2 steps ahead. Their golden rule is ” Do unto others before they do unto you”
Pray and help others.
The DC circuit is so corrupt they have psych files on everyone eligible for jury duty. They then select an entire jury pool of rabid leftists. The attorney for the conservative plaintiff/defendant is forced to agree to twelve of these, they have a limited number of strikes to use and the judge won’t declare them biased. The results are predetermined.
Juries are selected from the voter rolls. In 2024 DC voted 92.5% for Kamala Harris, 6.6% for Trump.
They don’t need to collect psych files. The entire DC voter base is a psych file.
You are right in identifying the root causes of what’s antagonizing us today. However, MAGA and America First are starting to make significant corrective action and bringing on a whole new generation that are seeing the emptiness and death of the Socialist and Progressive end game. And there are whole bunch of em fighting for our Republic right now. I’m 79 and I have waited a long time for such an awakening and will do all I can to support it!
Thank you Ross. I sure do remember that whole shtick. I had many older than I who claimed to be part of the Chicago 7. 1968 was also the year my oldest sister met her death in a Porsche wearing a black armband on her arm.
She loved to protest Everything after she finally got out of the house she grew up in. I can’t blame her one bit for the life she chose to live.
And dear Ross Carlosi, I am looking forward to the OVERTIME. I am seeing seeing signs that many of the my sibling’s and cousin’s children refusing to be brainwashed by anything. This is not hopium for me – but something real. I am so blessed to bear witness to this.
Just wondering where all of this judicial concern for the accused was for the Grandmas and Veterans and concerned American Citizens who walked between the velvet ropes in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021?
IKR!!!
The AG aspires to be as forceful and ambitious as General George McClellan in charge of the Army of the Potomac in 1862. /s
Nice reference. Maybe even some Fightin Joe Hooker.
Yep, Lincoln tried for two years to get McClellan to go to war with the Confederates
When does the virtue signaling of the Democommunists and mocking of MAGA begin?
Why. Because no good career prosecutor would indict, their own kind. Same old line.
Judges are the protector of The Borg.
Be REAL nice if we get good results from the midterms, and can go after these judges!!! A lady can dream—and pray!
We didn’t need this case to be thrown out to know how corrupt and weaponized the American judicial system is. This was a long shot from the start and went as we should have expected. But that isn’t any reason to stop or step back. Keep pushing these people as hard as possible. Never back down, never stop trying to get justice for the American people.
Like I said when the indictment dropped…
I concur. the Comey criminal indictment is Toast.
I’m a bit surprised, the government’s request for a stay was granted. With instructions.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.197.0_1.pdf
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Trump U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan wins temporary stay of (insane) order of U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick (illegally) carrying the water for James Comey
https://truthsocial.com/@mrddmia/115567759873764850
From a Susie Moore article at Redstate:
Update – 6:50 PM Eastern:
Judge Michael Nachmanoff, the district court judge overseeing the Comey case, has, in response to the DOJ’s emergency motion, issued a stay of Fitzpatrick’s ruling to allow the government to file its objections and Comey’s defense team to file their response. The ruling will remain on hold until the objections are heard and resolved.
That was the set up. This was 100% planned before Trump entered the scene. With 702 the Harvard law boys (my son-in-law is Harvard law, but he is highly principled), met and devised how to surveil and leak. Putting in a cut-out as a lawyer puts in plausible deniability for Comey. F*ck*rs! The surveil and leak is for control over the population. The damage that can be done, especially with a compliant media spewing 24/7 propaganda is immense. I wish Bondi had kept a better eye out for sabotage. You can never let your guard down around these people. This is really sad.
Objection, your honor, relevance. The fourth amendment reads in pertinent part “The right of the people…” James Comey is not the people, he is a government official in his official capacity and therefor has no fourth amendment right. Nor a second, nor a fifth for that matter.
Maybe this indictment has a different purpose. We all know Comey is a bad cop. And he didn’t act alone. It ain’t over til the fat lady sings. Patience and perseverance.
Thoughtful point.
FUBAR!!!
It’s extremely hard not to be extremely pessimistic.
Should have gone for seditious conspiracy, which it was.
Not buying a magistrate judge compared this by his lonesome
edit: “composed”
Gateway Pundit is now reporting that a Federal Judge has stayed the Magistrate Judge’s order, giving Halligan a brief victory; it’s a Biden appointed Judge, and ultimately, it’ll make no difference, it’ll be dismissed as SD has indicated; Lawfare is not about to let Comey crash and burn.
Amuse@amuse
LAWFARE: Judge Fitzpatrick is preparing to dismiss James Comey’s case after giving him sealed grand jury records. Epstein’s records stay sealed forever, but Comey gets access and a likely walk. The double standard could not be more obvious.
SD, what is your assessment of the support/loyalty that Pres. Trump can still get out of Todd Blanche (who was a personal lawyer of his through many fires) ?
Comey is scum. Always has been, always will be.
HEY! Don’t insult either soap or pond scum!!!
Once again, rules for thee. So maddening!
El Salvador president Nayib Bukele very correctly stated his nation had to remove the corrupt “judges” before they could have law and order.
It will be difficult, but it is time here to do so. We can do hard things.
I do wonder if someone’s checking the judges, for another go round. I understand DJT does NOT like to loose, and I wonder if there’s more to this than meets the eye? I hope so. I pray so.
This is another major marker that destroys confidence in the judicial system, continuing to send us down a non preferred path for a result the left truly works for.
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
All they do is lie. William Fitzpatrick is not a “federal judge.” He is a “magistrate.” That is not an Article III position. He was nominated by no president, confirmed by no Senate. He’s a puffed-up helper, appointed by judges to handle housekeeping chores. He isn’t even allowed to preside over felony trials.
What’s worse, but goes unmentioned, is that Fitzpatrick is a quarter-century Deep State DOJ veteran. His tenure overlapped with James Comey himself, the very person whose crimes he is now purporting to oversee. Most recently, he worked in the totally corrupt U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which, among countless abuses, spent eight years pushing fraudulent Mueller charges, until Lindsey Halligan brought that to a halt.
Cont reading….
Not sure why Trump’s legal team is not pushing this angle in a case of this importance. They are trying to disqualify Trump’s prosecutors everywhere. Why isn’t Trump’s legal team pushing to disqualify this judge from the case? Incompetence or intentional failure, no middle ground here.
stand by and remain true
Hey Regitiger! Long time no see! How’s it going?
All they do is lie. William Fitzpatrick is not a “federal judge.” He is a “magistrate.” That is not an Article III position.
Thanks for posting this…
It sounds like he should have recused himself and not taken this case. I am praying that this can be appealed…
““magistrate.” That is not an Article III position. He was nominated by no president, confirmed by no Senate. He’s a puffed-up helper, appointed by judges to handle housekeeping chores. He isn’t even allowed to preside over felony trials.”
Thank you Hans Mahncke for defining MAJISTRATE. I have been reluctant to do that for fear of …yes, some CTH commenters are brutal.
“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
― Friedrich von Logau
Trump still hasn’t appealed his conviction on 34 felony counts in the ridiculous Bragg case in NY. Why? Dershowitz says it’s a slam dunk to get it overturned. If Trump doesn’t move on this and fast he will be going to prison the day his term ends.
How come everyone else judge shops……but not the republicans…..?????
How do you see how and who the dirty individuals are?
No one is surprised that the case against Comey will be a sensational failure.
The leftists and their msm confederates will gloat loudly and incessantly, claiming a beat down and shaming of the President and Bondi.
The gut punch to rightousness will be hard and painful.
Gallican has responded by indicating that Fitzpatrick did not follow the law, by allowing the government 14 days to respond, but rather insisted that the government response should be within HOURS. While this may not have much bearing on the eventual dismissal of this case, hopefully the District Court judge will allow the government to follow the law (14 days) rather than the order that Fitzpatrick makes up. The entirety of the issue is whether the grand jury heard ‘privileged information’ between Comey and his lawyers. Fitzpatrick advised that the really didn’t find any, but….. And Comey was pretty slick….in hiring Richman as his attorney, whatever instructions he gave Richman to leak information would therefor be covered by ‘privileged info’. Of course, in another Trump case, judge Hoowell actually forced Trump’s lawyers to disclose to her all the ‘privileged information’ that Trump had with his attorneys. You can’t make this stuff up.
then its street,
okay by me.
God Bless MORAL CHRISTIAN WARRIORS.
standby good friends. this war is far far far from over.
it’
just
the beginning
So coup plotter Corney will skate along with his leaking buddy Richman.
This is bullshit, plain and simple.
I pray every day that President Trump honestly sees those around him who are against him in reality.
They are in the
CLUB
and You ain’t in it .