More than a hundred former Justice Department officials and 13 scholars of authoritarianism have thrown their weight behind former FBI Director James Comey, asking a judge to throw out the Trump administration's criminal charges against him.
In an amicus brief reportedly filed in federal court in Virginia Monday, former federal prosecutors ranging from Barack Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder to George W. Bush nominee Peter Keisler backed up Comey's argument that the prosecution is "vindictive".
