Maurene Comey Takes On New Role As Partner At Law Firm

For all of the administration’s big talk of meritocracy coming back to put the people who actually deserve the jobs in power, there’s been a lot of incompetency at the helm. Planes falling out the sky, repeated failures to indict pedophiles — let alone a sandwich — the list goes on. An explanatory thread that runs through the Kakistocracy is absolute fealty to Trump. And, given his self-declared love for the “poorly educated,” he has done a great job of empowering people that are quicker to chant “USA! USA!” than to ask if they’re being told to act in ways that are un-American. That comes at a great cost, namely the brain drain that comes from nixing competent people that put concepts like “justice” or “the Constitution” above Trump’s orange, bloated ego. Maurene Comey was one of the competent prosecutors hit, but she’s already pivoted successfully.

Reuters has coverage:

Maurene Comey, who brought criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs before she was fired as a Manhattan federal prosecutor last year, has moved into private practice at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, the law firm said on Wednesday.

Comey was among several federal prosecutors fired by the U.S. Justice Department since President Donald Trump returned to office last year. In September, she sued the DOJ and the Executive Office of the President, alleging she was not provided any cause for her removal.
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Comey will be a partner at New York-based, 200-lawyer Patterson Belknap. She noted on Wednesday that the law firm was among those that signed onto briefs denouncing U.S. President Donald Trump’s targeting of law firms through punishing executive orders last year.

There’s a reasonable suspicion that she was singled out because she is the daughter of James Comey, a man whose sea-shell-on-sand art project was taken so seriously that Kash Patel launched an FBI investigation over it. Or maybe it had something to do with her successful prosecution of very big names involved in sex crimes. Just shooting in the dark here because, again, she wasn’t given any cause for her removal.

This is a high profile example of the brain drain, but trust that this won’t be the last time it happens. Not too long ago the Pentagon flagged most of the T14 and other top ranked institutions (go WashU!) as ineligible for DoD tuition assistance programs because the schools were deemed ‘too woke.” As much as I’d like to think no angels will have to cry over a law student getting into Yale only to be forced out because the money evaporated, these funding cuts will keep minds from flourishing to the degree they would if they could afford getting in to NYU, Harvard, or Princeton’s non-existent law school. Check the list — they actually banned Princeton and Brown’s non-existent law schools from eligibility. That’s what happens when you have the “poorly educated” determining America’s future.

Congrats to Comey on her new role at Patterson Belknap!

Fired US Prosecutor Maurene Comey Joins New York Law Firm  [Reuters]

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