Overview
- Daniel Richman filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court seeking to bar the Justice Department from accessing or using files seized from him in 2019–2020 and to have them returned or deleted, alleging Fourth Amendment violations.
- The suit follows a magistrate judge’s finding last month that prosecutors showed a “cavalier” approach to constitutional limits by reusing Richman’s materials without new warrants or proper privilege filters.
- Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed the Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice after ruling that Lindsey Halligan lacked lawful authority to present the cases.
- The Justice Department is considering pursuing new indictments rather than appealing, with reporting citing sources who say prosecutors are exploring rapid grand-jury action in the Eastern District of Virginia.
- Re-indicting Comey faces a timing hurdle after the judge noted the statute of limitations expired on September 30, while in a separate civil case the DOJ moved to dismiss Maurene Comey’s wrongful-termination suit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and the parties reported no meaningful settlement talks.