James Comey team in court seeking to toss out third DOJ case against longtime Trump foe

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey will be in court Friday seeking to toss out the third federal criminal case the Trump administration has brought against him in the past 13 months.

Comey, who has long been a target of Donald Trump’s since the president fired him nearly a decade ago, is facing a case involving two alleged crimes that date back to 2016. His attorneys contend there’s no valid case against him: The government didn’t secure an indictment from a grand jury before the statute of limitations of 10 years expired.

It was the third case against Comey since September 2025, when a Trump-aligned attorney convinced a federal grand jury to return an indictment against Comey in the Eastern District of Virginia. That case was later tossed because the attorney, Lindsey Halligan, was found to have been unlawfully acting as a federal prosecutor.

Then came the seashells case: A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina indicted Comey over an Instagram photo he posted with seashells arranged to spell out “8647,” which prosecutors contended was a threat against the president. Comey’s team has moved to dismiss that case on several grounds and says…

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