Comey's fired daughter reinstated with back pay as judge won't let Trump immunity decision's 'stray language' carry the day

Main: Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey astatine Harvard University's Institute of Politics' JFK Jr. Forum successful Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Charles Krupa). Left inset: Donald Trump, President of the United States, attends a property league astatine the NATO Summit astatine the Presidential Complex successful Ankara, Turkiye, connected July 8, 2026 (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via AP). Right inset: Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey arrives astatine Federal Court for the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial, connected Monday, May 19, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey).

A New York justice ordered the reinstatement of fired national authoritative Maurene Comey with backmost pay, uncovering that the girl of ex-FBI Director James Comey was "terminated successful usurpation of the law separation of powers and national law."

The seasoned Southern District of New York authoritative who helped enactment Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell down bars was unlawfully fired successful July 2025, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ruled Monday in a lengthy decision.

Comey's firing violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), violated her Fifth Amendment "due process and statutory rights," and was "not authorized by" the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA), the Barack Obama-appointed jurist concluded, rejecting the DOJ's citations of the Supreme Court's statesmanlike immunity determination successful Trump v. United States and the firing powers determination successful Trump v. Slaughter.

"Defendants' contention that caller Supreme Court decisions person fatally undermined that precedent is not 1 that this Court, arsenic a little court, whitethorn accept. It is besides without merit. Indeed, to judge Defendants' statement would beryllium to unsettle the precise equilibrium established by this Nation's law system," Furman said, rejecting the DOJ's "sweeping and unprecedented mentation of enforcement authority."

"Slaughter, astatine least, was a lawsuit astir the President's removal power; Trump v. United States, of course, was not," the justice observed. "Instead, it was a lawsuit astir statesmanlike immunity from transgression prosecution."

"That said," helium added, "there is connection successful Trump v. United States that, taken retired of discourse and work broadly (as Defendants do), could telephone Perkins and its progeny into question."

Though helium called the DOJ's immunity determination statement "at slightest colorable," Furman noted that obscurity successful that sentiment did the justices "suggest, fto unsocial hold, that it was overruling 2 centuries of jurisprudence regarding Congress's authorization to restrict the removal of inferior officers" similar Comey.

"To the contrary, erstwhile the Court referred to the President's 'unrestricted powerfulness of removal' — arsenic it did repeatedly — it made wide that it was referring specifically to the President's powerfulness to region principal officers, specified arsenic the Attorney General himself," the ruling said, not letting "stray language" from the immunity determination transportation the day.

Furman stated that the Trump DOJ's mentation that Congress "may not modulate the removal of an Executive Branch authoritative astatine the behest of the President himself and whitethorn not interfere straight with investigative and prosecutorial decisionmaking" has "no relevance to the propriety of Comey's removal successful this case."

As a result, helium granted Maurene Comey "retroactive reinstatement and backpay effectual from the day of her termination done December 20, 2025[.]"

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