Isaac SchorrApr 28th, 2026, 1:50 pm

Former FBI director James Comey was indicted for the second time in less than a year by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Tuesday.

According to CNN, which broke the story Tuesday afternoon, “the specific charges” against Comey “were not immediately clear.”

Comey was indicted last September for lying to Congress, but the case was dismissed a few months later after a federal judge found that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who brought the charges, was not appointed legally.

“Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid,” wrote District Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie in her opinion dismissing the cases against both Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).

“All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside,” she added.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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