The Trump administration really, really wants to indict James Comey again. A federal judge just made that harder.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Saturday temporarily blocked the Justice Department from using a crucial trove of evidence in its pursuit of new charges against the former FBI director, according to the New York Times. The ruling doesn't stop prosecutors from trying to indict Comey, but it does mean they might have to do it without citing communications between Comey and his friend, Columbia law professor Daniel Richman.

Here's the backstory: Comey was charged in September with lying to Congress about authorizing an associate to serve as an anonymous media source. The case relied heavily on messages between Comey and Richman. But Richman's lawyers argue prosecutors exceeded t

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