Daughter of former FBI director James B. Comey and ex-prosecutor of the two most recent high-profile cases in the U.S., Maurene Comey is suing the Department of Justice and the Executive Office of the President after she was abruptly fired in July. But Neitizens believe the odds are stacked against her.
In the lawsuit filed on Monday, Sept. 15, in Manhattan, Comey alleges she was given no substantive reason for her firing, aside from a reference to Article II of the U.S. Constitution and the presidential powers of Donald J. Trump. Though she is not the only federal prosecutor dismissed under Trump’s administration, Comey has chosen to contest the decision. She argues that her removal was motivated less by law than by politics, namely, her perceived political leanings and her relationship to her father, a long-time adversary of Trump since the 2016 presidential election
