On Wednesday, veteran federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was, as she later wrote in an email to former colleagues, fired "without reason" by the Justice Department. She served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York for nearly a decade and is best known for her involvement in several high-profile sex crimes cases, including the prosecutions of the late millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; and Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. So why was she fired? The real explanation could have little to do with Comey herself and more to do with the Trump administration's open weaponization of federal employment and/or its desire to quell the ongoing revolt within MAGA circles over the so-called Epstein files. To the extent that Trump appointees, after years of feeding Epstein-related conspiracies, ultimately discovered the files were, as Trump said on Tuesday, "sordid but boring," Comey is hardly at fault. But more importantly, within a Republican Party and conservative media ecosphere fixated on allegations of child sex trafficking and abuse, she should be lauded, not blamed. This is a preview of Lisa Rubin's latest column. Read the full column here. |
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On Thursday night, the president vowed to sue The Wall Street Journal. On Friday, a lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Florida, according to that court's docket. Read more. |
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Class-based affirmative action was supposed to be the next big thing. Now it's a target. Read more. |
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The president's "Unabomber" story made no sense, and he doesn't appear to know what his administration is doing or what laws his party is passing. Read more. |
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The U.S. has a long history of judging food choices, especially those of the poor. Read more. |
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