A judge appointed by former President Biden was randomly assigned Thursday night to oversee the criminal case of James Comey, the former FBI director and a longtime adversary of President Trump.

U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff was confirmed in 2021, the newest addition to the Alexandria, Va.-based federal court where Comey was hit with two federal charges following a pressure campaign from Trump. Before that, Nachmanoff was a magistrate judge in the same district for six years.

It’s not the first time the judge has presided over politically fraught cases.

Earlier this year, he let the CIA fire a doctor whom Trump’s allies targeted for promoting mandatory COVID-19 vaccines in the military while serving as a Pentagon health official during the pandemic.

He previously sentenced a f

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