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On Monday, former FBI Director James Comey filed a motion<\/u> to dismiss his prosecution over a photograph of seashells<\/u> he shared on Instagram, and buried within the 42-page brief, as noted by legal expert Joyce Vance, was a \u201clittle jab\u201d at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

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Comey was indicted in April on two felony counts for sharing a photograph of seashells on the beach laid out to read \u201c86 47.\u201d The number 47 was interpreted as a reference to Trump as the 47th president of the United States, and 86 as a reference to the informal term<\/u> used to reject something, or eject someone from a bar or restaurant.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Justice Department and MAGA allies have interpreted<\/u> Comey\u2019s social media post as a threat on the president\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

In his brief, Comey and his legal team rejected the DOJ\u2019s interpretation of his social media post, and, in what Vance flagged as a \u201clittle jab\u201d at the Supreme Court, used the court\u2019s own terminology to argue the case should be dismissed out of hand.<\/p>\n

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Comey\u2019s brief reads: \u201cAllowing this prosecution to proceed would sharply depart from our Nation\u2019s history and tradition,\u201d which Vance, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, flagged as having significance among the Supreme Court\u2019s conservative justices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Court has infamously used the \u2018history and tradition\u2019 test in recent terms to reach the result-oriented outcomes it has landed on in culture wars cases like Dobbs, the abortion case, and Bruen, the Second Amendment case,\u201d Vance, who called the case against Comey “ridiculous,” wrote in an analysis<\/u> published Tuesday on her Substack. <\/p>\n

\u201cHere, they flip it back at the government, writing, \u2018Under British law, citizens could be prosecuted and executed for speaking about the death of the King. But the Founders emphatically rejected that practice in the Constitution.\u2019 Rather, we are \u2018free to criticize government officials in direct and even strident terms.\u2019 That principle is enshrined in the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Monday, former FBI Director James Comey filed a motion to dismiss his prosecution over a photograph of seashells he shared on Instagram, and buried within the 42-page brief, as noted by legal expert Joyce Vance, was a \u201clittle jab\u201d at the Supreme Court.Comey was indicted in April on two felony cou…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nSneaky 'jab' smacks Supreme Court as Trump foe takes on his DOJ in new filing: expert - Property Relocation USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=5096\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sneaky 'jab' smacks Supreme Court as Trump foe takes on his DOJ in new filing: expert - 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