"The Justice Department petitioned for the dismissal of Maurene Comey's case in a joint letter submitted to Judge Jesse M Furman. Maurene Comey's lawyers and the chief of the civil division of the federal prosecutor's office in Albany both contributed to the letter. The Justice Department argued that Maurene Comey's complaint should be tossed because she did not fully comply with administrative procedures requiring the Merit Systems Protection Board to first consider her claim."
"In September, Comey sued the department, the Executive Office of the President, US Attorney General Pamela Bondi, the Office of Personnel Management and the United States. The lawsuit said her July firing was based on political reasons, including that her father is James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and a prominent critic of President Donald Trump. Trump fired James Comey in 2017, amid disagreements over an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election."
Maurene Comey sued multiple federal entities after her July firing, alleging the termination was politically motivated and linked to her father, former FBI Director James Comey. The Justice Department filed a joint petition to dismiss the suit, contending she did not follow required administrative procedures and should have brought her claim first to the Merit Systems Protection Board. The department rejected her assertion that appealing to the board would have been futile and maintained the board is the proper forum to assess whether her removal was a prohibited personnel action or arbitrary agency action. A hearing is scheduled before Judge Jesse M. Furman.
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