A New York federal judge on Monday stuck it to convicted felon President Trump’s regime and ordered former Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey reinstated to the job, finding that the daughter of the former FBI Director’s “removal was not authorized by any statute; to the contrary, it violated the [Civil Service Reform Act]. Yes, the Attorney General is authorized by law to remove an AUSA. But the Attorney General (and anyone to whom the Attorney General delegates that authority) is also limited by law, namely the CSRA, to do so only in a particular manner and only for certain reasons. And Comey’s removal indisputably violated the CSRA. Second, Defendants’ argument that Article II bars Congress from regulating the removal of AUSAs flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent, rooted in the text of the Appointments Clause, holding that Congress may generally restrict the removal of ‘inferior officers.’ Defendants’ contention that recent Supreme Court decisions have fatally undermined that precedent is not one that this Court, as a lower court, may accept. It is also without merit. Indeed, to accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system.”
Judge Jesse Furman also awarded Comey back pay owed since her July 2025 firing from the post.