Judge blocks Trump’s firing of James Comey’s daughter

Federal Judge Jesse Furman in New York ruled against Donald Trump and the Justice Department over the firing of Maurene Comey, a prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He found that the department had no legal basis to fire her and ordered her dismissal reversed. Maurene Comey is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey and works in an office handling several high-profile cases involving Trump allies. Trump had ordered her firing after accusing the Comey family of conducting a witch-hunt.