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Maurene Comey, a long-time U.S. attorney, has filed criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump administration She suddenly opened fire from the Justice Department on Monday.
Since 2015, Comey has served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern New York Region. She called her dismissal illegal, “a politically motivated” and believed that this was largely due to the fact that her father was former FBI director James Comey.
In Monday’s lawsuit, Comey’s lawyer said her firing violated “multiple provisions” of the Public Reform Act, a law designed to protect government employees, including careers Federal Attorney – and the First and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
“Ms Comey’s politically motivated termination, ostensibly the basis of Article 2 of the Constitution, which is the cornerstone principle of our democracy and justice system,” her lawyer said.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey was in the court where Sean Diddy comb trials were held in Manhattan, where he served as chief prosecutor. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Number)
“The defendant provided no explanation for the termination of Ms Comey,” her attorney said. “In fact, there was no reasonable explanation. Instead, the defendant was only or essentially because her father was former FBI Director James B. Comey.
The lawsuit calls for the return of Comey to the southern New York area, and attorneys noted that her work has received multiple awards, promotions and internal recognition, including a recent performance review calling her work the “future.”
It also cites the protection provided by professional federal prosecutors, including previous notifications and challenges to evacuate capabilities.
Her lawyers say that in the years since Comey joined SDNY in 2015, she has been appointed to prosecute the department’s most notable cases, including criminal cases against Epstein, Maxwell and others. Most recently, in May, she led the prosecution against Sean “Diddy” comb.
President Donald Trump, together with Attorney General Pam Bondi, spoke at the Justice Department in Washington on Friday, March 14, 2025. (via AP pool)
The lawsuit says the U.S. Attorney’s Office requires Comey to lead a “major” public corruption case the day before he was fired.
The next day, she was told about her firing by email. According to the lawsuit, the email did not list the reasons or reasons for the dismissal, although it referred to “art 2” or the power of the commander-in-chief.
The lawsuit says that when U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton pressed Comey, she did not answer his dismissal message. Instead, he told her: “I can only say it’s from Washington. I can’t tell you anything.”
“Ms Comey has never been given other explanations to the cause of her dismissal,” her lawyer said. “The defendant has no legal authority to terminate the defendant. [the] Plaintiff from federal service did not comply with the statutory protection given to her. ”
They believe that this distinction should mean that Comey’s termination is “Ultra Vires”, or is beyond a person’s authority and therefore “invalid or effective”.
“The executive cannot use Article II to overthrow Congress and revoke career civil servants to show disloyalty,” they added. “This behavior violates the fundamental right to separation of the Constitution. It also violates the Bill of Rights, depriving Ms. Kosi of the protection under the First and Fifth Amendments.”
The Justice Department declined to comment on the lawsuit, which named the department, attorney general Pamela Bondi, OPM and the presidential executive office as defendants.
It was a year-long, high-profile dispute between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey, who fired his ten-year term for five years during his first White House term in 2017.
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Former FBI Director James Comey was sworn in before testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The two have continued to have drastically different in the years since Comey left. Comey became a vocal Trump critic in public and his memoir Higher Loyalty. Comey once again entered the president’s crosshair earlier this year after he posted what Trump Allies regarded as mysterious social media posts. He denied understanding what it really means.
As far as Trump is concerned, he continues to attack Comey and investigates his term with the FBI. Earlier this year, the FBI confirmed Criminal investigation was conducted Allegedly making false statements to Congress, entering Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.
The details of the investigation are unclear, and in the months since the FBI announced in July, there was little information about the nature or status of the investigation.
About a week after the investigation was announced, the young Comey was terminated – her lawyers highlighted a detail in the lawsuit seeking her recovery and return of her salary.
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“If a professional prosecutor can be fired for no reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who stay,” Maurene Comey wrote in a farewell email to his colleagues.
“Don’t let this happen,” she said.
