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No one in the Department of Justice wants to take on the Comey family, and I don't blame them. And I'm not just talking about James Comey, who had a very good day in Alexandria, Virginia today in front of Judge Curry to try to get his indictment dismissed. To try to get Lindsey Halligan declared to be an illegally appointed prosecutor. But that's not even the top headline. Maureen Comey, his daughter, a career prosecutor who is esteemed, who has an enviable body of work as a Prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, who got fired. Nobody, I mean nobody in the Department of Justice has decided that they're going to take on Maureen Comey and appear in court, file a notice of appearance to say they're gonna defend the Department of Justice. Hello? Is anyone home? Judge Furman looked around and said, we're almost out of time here. And no one has appeared from the Department of Justice and filed a notice of appearance. Not the Southern District of New York who don't want to tangle with Maureen Comey. Not the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn who don't want to do it either. Not the Federal contracting unit within the Department of Justice in Washington. No one. Let me tell you how unusual that is. In 35 years of my federal practice, I've never seen the U.S. attorney's office or the Department of Justice not file a notice of appearance in a case where they have been sued within hours or days of the suit being served on them. It was served on them September 22. They only have till November 21 to file their, their opposition, their answer or their motion to dismiss. And the judge already set a status conference which he's now had to postpone. I'm going to read to you from the order he's now had a postponed because nobody appeared for the government, because nobody wants to take on Maureen Comey. And who can blame them? Maureen Comey was the prosecutor for Ghislaine Maxwell. She knows where all the bodies are buried. She knows all the evidence like the back of her hand. I tried cases 20 years ago, I can, I could do the opening statement for those cases. I know the case that well. Maureen Comey knows the how and why Ghislaine Maxwell got convicted of five felony counts for child sex trafficking. That's the reason she's apparently now in a Beverly Hills style resort, a low minimum security prison in Texas and trying to get a pardon out of Donald Trump. And when Todd Blanche went in to interview Ghislaine Maxwell to try to get her to vouch for Donald Trump, a child sex trafficker vouching for a president of the United States, how low we have sunk. He didn't want to take Maureen Comey in with him. He didn't want anybody challenging his interviews. He didn't want to know the emails, he didn't want to know the documents, he didn't want to know the evidence. He just wanted to ask your questions. Oh, that's true. Oh, the, the moon is made of cheese. Oh, that's interesting. Maureen Comey would lean into his, his ear, which he didn't want, and say she's lying. That's not true. There's evidence against her. There's an email against her. So he fired her three weeks before she filed a lawsuit. Maureen Comey in order to get her job back, all she wants to do is be a federal prosecutor. And by the way, nobody wants to be a federal prosecutor in the Department of justice anymore. 5000 people in the last 10 months either got fired or resigned. They're running away screaming from Pam Bondi and the chief legal officer of the United States, Donald Trump. By the way, I'm glad you're here. On Midas touch on Michael Popak. Another hot take, another day, another scandal. And come over to Legal AF YouTube channel. Hit the free subscribe button there as well. When Maureen Comey filed her lawsuit, she argued to the federal judge that the reason she's in court at all is because Donald Trump got rid of the Merit Systems Protection Board. That is a federal agency that's supposed to protect federal workers and their rights when they are wrongfully terminated. But we don't have one anymore because Donald Trump got rid of all the Biden appointees. There's only one person left. He's a Republican. There's no quorum, no merit Systems Protection Board, no place to file your complaint. So she went because it would be futile. So she went to court. And that's when the government's on the clock. Now, the government gets 60 days. Regular defendants get 30 days, but they get extra time. Judge Furman looked around and said, where is everybody? Why isn't anybody? Why isn't anybody here? So what Judge Furman ordered when he looked around and saw no notice of appearance. In other words, they're very close to getting a default judgment granted against them in favor of Maureen Comey, which would get her job reinstated. I mean, some online pundits are like, is there anybody home in the Department of Justice? I saw a picture I loved. I'll put it up here. Of just an empty Department of Justice podium with nobody at it. I mean, it's headed by an empty suit meat puppet and Pam Bondi. This is what the Judge Furman said. In light of the fact that Defendants have until November 21st to respond to the complaint. The initial pretrial conference which he set, believing that the Department of Justice would defend itself and file a notice of appearance in this matter, has been adjourned until December 4th of 2025. At 3:15. He wants everybody in person at 500 Pearl street, one of the federal courthouses in lower Manhattan. Um, because counsel has not yet appeared on behalf of the defendants, plaintiff Maureen Comey shall no later than November 5th, which he's done, serve a copy of this order on the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And then the judge put in an email of the person that he wants this notice to go to, and then that office shall share it with, quote, whatever component of the Department of Justice, whatever, will handle this matter. Now, the reporting that's coming out, like through the New York Times, is nobody wants to handle it. The Southern District of New York, where James Comey was the U.S. attorney, not when his daughter was there at one time, where Maureen Comey plied her trade for 10 years, has disqualified itself. They're not even gonna let Pam Bondi try to pressure any of the individual prosecutors who don't wanna take on Maureen Comey in this case. Cause it's such a bad case for the doj. And they're gonna lose. They're out. Eastern District of New York sitting in Brooklyn. They're out. Federal, Federal contracts unit within the Department of Justice in Washington. They're out. So who's going to do it? Some high level, I assume, or somebody from outside. They're gonna have to get somebody from like Tennessee to come into New York in front of Judge Furman to represent the United States Department of Justice and Pam Bondi. But he says whoever is going to handle it better file their notice of appearance and show up. He also reminds them that although there was an order after the government shutdown which said that civil cases in which the United States Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York have appeared as council of record staying those actions while the government was shut down but now reopen, it doesn't apply because he doesn't believe that the Southern District of New York is going to be participating in the case at all. And he thinks a different component of the Department of Justice is going to appear. Now, what's Pam Bondi going to do about it? She's going to have to go conscript and she's going to have to go order one of her, one of her lawyers who don't want to do it to go up against Maureen Comey. And how do I know they don't want to do it? They don't want to. Or how do I know she's going to do it? Because she issued a memo, I'll put it up in Legal a F sub stack on February 5th of 2025, which she reminded, threatened members of the Department of Justice that she says it is therefore the policy of the Department of Justice that any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court, refuses to advance good faith arguments on behalf of the administration or otherwise delays or impedes the department's mission will be subject to discipline and termination. Now, she issued this after people like Erez Reveni and others refused to continue to lie for the Trump administration in front of federal judges. He was the whistleblower who issued a 28 page whistleblower report that he was forced to lie to federal judges like Judge Zinnis in Maryland. And he refused. He got fired. She then issued the memo to have a little bit of a backdate. She loves backdating Pam Bundy. A backdated paper trail. And now we see what's gonna happen. So far, nobody's stepping forward. I'll continue to follow it right here on Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF slide over to Legal AF, the YouTube channel. We're gonna crash through 1 million subscribers with your help. Go check and see if you are a subscriber. We need the free subscription we need for our First Amendment rights to be protected for you to express yours and hit the button. Come over to legalif substack where you'll be able to get copies of under Filings AF of Judge Furman's order and Pam Bondi's secret memo, which I of course have a copy of from February 5th, all on legal AF substack. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak. Can't get your fill of Legal af. Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF substack. 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