The Unexplained Firing of Maurene Comey
A Political Problem of Trump’s Own Making
On July 16, the Department of Justice abruptly fired Maurene Comey, a respected career federal prosecutor, without explanation. Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has spent more than a decade at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, handling some of the highest-profile prosecutions in the country, includi…
