{"id":764,"date":"2026-10-26T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:01:58","slug":"judge-rules-maurene-comey-firing-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"A JUDGE SAYS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ILLEGALLY FIRED COMEY\u2019S DAUGHTER! | She was told it \u201ccame from Washington.\u201d Now a federal court says reinstate her, pay her back, and the DOJ says it will appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIRED FOR HER LAST NAME? A JUDGE SAYS THAT DOESN&#8217;T FLY! The US justice department illegally fired <strong>Maurene Comey<\/strong>, daughter of former FBI director James Comey, a federal judge ruled on Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ck78px6glw3lo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Judge <strong>Jesse Furman<\/strong> ordered the Trump administration to reinstate her and give her back pay. He said the dismissal violated the US Constitution and her right to a fair legal process, noting the attorney general can fire federal prosecutors but only \u201cin a particular manner and only for certain reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comey lost her job as a federal prosecutor in New York in <strong>July 2025<\/strong>. She sued, arguing she was pushed out because of her father, a Trump critic, and her perceived politics. She said the only reason she was given was that it \u201ccame from Washington.\u201d The justice department said in court filings the decision was made by former Attorney General Pam Bondi.<\/p>\n<p>Furman said she \u201cconsistently received the highest accolades,\u201d and her cases included Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs. Back pay covers July to December 2025, when she took a new job.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ says it disagrees and \u201cwill appeal in due course.\u201d Her lawyers called it a victory \u201cto all civil servants, and to all fighting for the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ck78px6glw3lo\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was told it \u201ccame from Washington.\u201d Now a federal court says reinstate her, pay her back, and the DOJ says it will appeal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-comey-ruling-1026.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}