There are times when I miss practicing law, because — right now — there are few more important posts for defending the rule of law and the integrity of the American system of justice than on James Comey’s defense team.

Let’s be clear — perfectly clear — about what happened last week. On Thursday, a federal grand jury, acting on the urging of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, indicted Comey, the former director of the FBI. The indictment was the culmination of a transparently vindictive campaign by Trump to get revenge on his political enemies, no matter the facts or the law.

Let’s rewind the clock to May 2017. At the time, the FBI was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Trump was furious that he was implicated. Trump reportedly demanded that aides s

See Full Page