Accepting Lindsey Halligan’s proposal, the judge wrote, “would unnecessarily hinder and delay Defendant’s ability to adequately prepare for trial.”
It’s early yet in the James Comey case, but the former FBI director got a quick win on a procedural issue that reinforces the presiding judge’s refusal to allow needless delay in the criminal case against the Donald Trump critic brought by a Trump-installed prosecutor.
That reinforcement came from U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, who rejected the Justice Department’s motion for a protective order that would’ve limited Comey’s access to discovery. The judge wrote that the Trump DOJ’s proposal “would unnecessarily hinder and delay Defendant’s ability to adequately prepare for trial.”
In a two-page order explaining his decision Monday, Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee sitting in the Eastern District of Virginia, noted that prior high-profile false statement cases didn’t have the sort of limitations the government proposed here. The judge added that the DOJ proposal didn’t sufficiently detail the information purportedly needing protection, thus making the request overbroad.
DOJ brought the case in a court known as the “rocket docket” and they’re trying to take it slow. An experienced prosecutor would have known better, but apparently they couldn’t find any who thought the case was strong enough to bother with.
There’s a reason Trump only hires bimbos
They know they are going to lose, but they still want to make it is painful and expensive for Comey as possible. Weaponized DOJ from a bunch of hypocrites.
Needless delay? The Trump administration? Really???
Speaking of, where are the files? Or did we forget already?
