Stay Tuned with Preet

Trump’s DOJ Targets Comey & Alaska’s Election

Stay Tuned with Preet

Show Notes

In an excerpt from this week’s episode of the Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the state of Alaska seeking to preemptively block certification of the state’s Senate election results in the event that Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan narrowly loses because of votes cast for another candidate with the same name.

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In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down:

– The new criminal charges filed against former FBI Director Jim Comey, DOJ’s third attempt;

– A judge’s decision that DOJ unlawfully fired former prosecutor and daughter of Jim Comey, Maurene Comey, from her position at the US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York; and

– The latest court ruling in the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California seeking to remove alleged noncitizens from the voter rolls.

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