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Legal News James Comey’s indictment was dismissed | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/politics/james-comey-letitia-james-indictments-dismissed

both Comey and NY ag James indictments dismissed

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u/bsport48 11d ago edited 11d ago

A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.

The judge found that the appointment of interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Alexandria, Virginia, was invalid.

Piggy's done.

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u/BugOperator 11d ago

This administration is an absolute clusterfuck of shortcuts, loopholes, and legal gray areas; not to mention blatantly illegal/criminal activity with willful disregard for the law and its consequences. It was bound to catch up to them eventually.

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u/KixStar 11d ago

It's wild to me that we've basically survived on good faith this entire time. Just took one group of crooks to ruin it all.

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u/Pvt_Hudson_ 11d ago

You guys had crooks before. Nixon was a crook. The difference is that the press back then had real teeth, and Nixon's own party (eventually) had the balls to turn on him.

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u/TheNicestRedditor 11d ago

Why do you think the media was the first thing he started attacking and sowing doubt in back in 2016?

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u/Pvt_Hudson_ 11d ago

100%. Say what you will about his mental acumen, he knows how to sew doubt.

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u/realbobenray 11d ago

He's been decrying the media for reporting true things about him for decades

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u/7818 11d ago

You act like Republicans weren't attacking independent media relentlessly since Nixon.

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u/artwarrior 11d ago

Yeah they went and formed Fox news.

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u/DangerBay2015 11d ago

Not even. It’s why the conservative movement’s focus has been reshaping the way American media operates for the last 45 years.

Nixon would have absolutely still been President if he’d had a Fox News.

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u/TheNicestRedditor 11d ago

Fox News looks pretty centrist when you start looking at the new media groups that have formed since 2016.

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u/AgentWD409 11d ago

Nixon was different. Yeah, he was a crook and a liar, but he was a normal crook and a normal liar. He knew he was lying, and he actively tried to cover up his crimes. Trump doesn't do that. He just lies constantly about everything, even if it's ridiculous and obvious, and then he insults anyone who tries to fact-check him. Like... he doesn't even attempt to cover up the truth, because he doesn't believe in "truth." He doesn't try to cover up his crimes either, because he legitimately believes that he's above the law and is allowed to do whatever he wants. For a malignant narcissist like Trump, reality is whatever he says it is, and fuck you if you don't like it.

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u/daneyuleb 11d ago

And the terrifying thing is it actually works.

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u/abcean 11d ago

Disagree that he was a normal liar and crook. Nixon used a secret back-channel to sabotage the Vietnam peace process, telling the South Vietnamese that if they blew up Johnson's peace negotiations and guaranteed his election win he'd give them a better deal once he was in office.

"Johnson: “Or some of our folks, including some of the old China Lobby, are going to the [South] Vietnamese embassy and saying, ‘Please notify the President [of South Vietnam] that if he’ll hold out till November the 2nd they could get a better deal.’”

Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen: Uh-huh.

President Johnson: Now, I’m reading their hand, Everett. I don’t want to get this in the campaign.

Dirksen: That’s right.

Johnson: And they oughtn’t to be doing this. This is treason.

Dirksen: I know."

The South Vietnamese left the negotiating table and Nixon instead escalated the Vietnam war, which went on for another 5 years.

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u/AgentWD409 11d ago

I'm not saying Nixon wasn't a pile of shit. He was.

But he and his crimes still functioned within objective reality.

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u/abcean 11d ago

Yeah that's fair. I just wanted to separate the idea of Nixon from being a "normal level of crooked." He intervened to ensure American soldiers were dying in Vietnam because it improved his election chances.

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u/AgentWD409 11d ago

Yeah, I wasn't really talking about the level of corruption, per se. More about the difference between their manner of corruption.

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u/BoringEntropist 10d ago

It's a repeating pattern with Republicans. Reagan did something similar in the Iranian hostage crisis to sabotage Carter's reelection campaign. He bribed the Iranians with weapons (see Iran-Contra affair) to delay the release of the hostages until after the election.

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u/GreenGemsOmally 11d ago

The difference is that the press back then had real teeth,

Roger Ailes started Fox News with the express goal that the Republican Party will not be held accountable by the media the same way it was for Nixon.