Over the weekend, Judge Nachmanoff made it clear that a large amount of discovery material is to be delivered to James Comey today. The prosecution team from North Carolina seem to be engaging in a series of stall tactics to delay this.
The eastern district of Virginia is known informally as the “rocket docket” because of its fast resolution times for cases.
Oh, man…they don’t even realize that all this does is open them ALL up to the same kind of prosecution, the instant there is an opportunity. We all know that both Kash Parel and Pam Bondi have lied during their committee testimonies. Now, it’s a matter of precedent that they face criminal prosecutions for it.
I fully believe that this is an attempt to proactively delegitimize any attempts to prosecute former Trump officials for their actual crimes. You can just hear the dipshit chorus of “You protested when we prosecuted Comey and James, and now you’re trying to do the exact same thing to us!”
Except they’re not really protesting against this, though. If they want to make asses of themselves in court, who cares? Everyone knows the evidence will clear both of them…so, let it go to trial.
Then, once there’s someone in charge that has some actual integrity…just return the favor. The only difference will be the fact that pretty much everyone in the current administration has committed actual crimes in Trump’s name. These fucks are all setting themselves up for prison, just by following Trump’s orders.
a lot of them probably expect pardons, but are delusional enough to ignore how badly Trump treats most of his toadies…
I have less than no faith that American courts can deliver justice. Like they’re unashamedly corrupt and follow party lines.
Its just not possible for an American court to convict a republican for their crimes.
This is just evidence that this case is 100% retribution. They scrapped together a case before the 5 year, Sept 2025, statute of limitations kicked in. But they don’t actually have a case ready to prosecute. They’re stalling to come up with something, anything, coherent to prosecute.
But they have the concept of a case. They’ll tell ya.
UPDATE: As the deadline expired today, the prosecution dropped this motion which discloses that they searched an attorney’s phone with a warrant.
Because the stuff on this phone is a landmine of attorney-client privilege, they contend, there must be a complicated and lengthy clean room-style process to sort the privileged stuff from non-privileged.
Comey disagrees and wants to challenge the search warrant first.
I strongly suspect they didn’t actually turn over much of anything today, but we shall see.
“Wait … what’s ‘discovery material’?”
If you are asking for real; Each side of the case has to give the other side access to what they plan to use as evidence during the case, as well as other documents that may be requested and deemed relevant by the court. This process is called ‘discovery’. The ‘material’ would be the physical data (digital or otherwise) being handed over.
The whole thing being enclosed in quotes was supposed to imply that that’s what they’d be asking. Because they are incompetent.
Though i still appreciate them explaining for those of us playing along at home 😅
It’s a Star Trek show. I never got into it, but I guess the judge did?
