Comey alleges that the Trump administration fired her for political reasons, including her family ties to former FBI director James Comey.By The Associated PressPublished On 3 Dec 20253 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe United States Justice Department is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey to contest her firing.In court papers filed on Monday, the Justice Department argued Comey did not properly follow administrative complaint procedures before suing.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe petition to dismiss the suit came ahead of a Thursday hearing in the case before a Manhattan federal court.In September, Comey sued the department, the Executive Office of the President, US Attorney General Pamela Bondi, the Office of Personnel Management and the United States.The lawsuit said her July firing was based on political reasons, including that her father is James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and a prominent critic of President Donald Trump.Trump fired James Comey in 2017, amid disagreements over an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.Inside the dismissal petitionThe Justice Department petitioned for the dismissal of Maurene Comey’s case in a joint letter submitted to Judge Jesse M Furman.Maurene Comey’s lawyers and the chief of the civil division of the federal prosecutor’s office in Albany both contributed to the letter.The Justice Department argued that Maurene Comey’s complaint should be tossed because she did not fully comply with administrative procedures requiring the Merit Systems Protection Board to first consider her claim.It also rejected her lawsuit’s assertion that the notice of appeal she filed with the board was futile. Advertisement The board, the Justice Department maintained, was “the appropriate forum to determine whether, as Ms Comey claims, her removal was a prohibited personnel action or an arbitrary and capricious agency action”.Comey’s lawyers said in the filing that the board “lacks expertise to adjudicate this novel dispute” and was not an appropriate forum because “this case raises foundational constitutional questions with respect to the separation of powers”.They also argued that it was “no longer true” that t …
