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Ray Brescia, Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life, Albany Law School

‘Without prejudice’: What this 2-word legalese means for the dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James

Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in remotely at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Sept. 30, 2020. Ken Cedeno-Pool/Getty Images

A federal judge on Nov. 24, 2025, dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, blocking the Department of Justice’s efforts to prosecute two of President Donald Trump’s perceived adversaries.

But U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie qualified her dismissals, saying she did so “without prejudice.”

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