James Comey thought he was untouchable when he orchestrated the Trump-Russia hoax.
Now he's getting help from an unexpected ally in the federal judiciary.
And a Clinton judge just handed James Comey a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Judge All But Ordered Destruction of Critical Evidence in Comey Case
Clinton-appointed Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly dropped a bombshell ruling that threatens to derail the Justice Department's prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.
The 81-year-old judge effectively ordered the FBI to destroy emails between Comey and his longtime friend Daniel Richman, a Columbia Law professor who served as Comey's conduit for leaking information to the media about President Trump.
Get this: these emails are the cornerstone of the entire obstruction case against Comey.
Comey was indicted in September on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding over his 2020 testimony about Operation Crossfire Hurricane — the codename for the FBI's political witch hunt against Trump.
Prosecutors alleged Comey lied when he denied authorizing anyone at the FBI to act as an anonymous source for media reports damaging to Trump.
The indictment detailed how Comey used Richman as an outside messenger to leak material while Richman simultaneously worked as a government contractor.
FBI agents seized the emails from Richman's devices six years ago under a warrant approved by Obama-appointed Judge James Boasberg.
Now Kollar-Kotelly, who presides over cases in Washington but has nothing to do with the Virginia court handling Comey's prosecution, decided she gets to interfere anyway.
She granted Richman's motion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g) to reclaim the emails, claiming prosecutors handled them with "callous disregard" for his rights.
The judge ordered the Justice Department to return all seized data and barred the FBI and prosecutors from reviewing the emails as they work to secure a new indictment.
Deep State Judges Protecting Their Own
Michael R. Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, called the ruling a direct assault on the separation of powers.
"This threatens the separation of powers essential to the Republic, and either the D.C. Circuit or Supreme Court must intervene immediately," Davis stated.
Kollar-Kotelly's ruling is extraordinary because Richman isn't charged with any crime and Comey himself lacks standing to challenge the warrant executed on Richman's accounts.
Normally, the judge presiding over the criminal case decides whether to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment.
Not a different judge in a different district using a third party as a vehicle to attack the warrant.
"Richman has run to a partisan Democrat judge not even involved in the criminal case — and not even in the same district — to procure the destruction of crucial evidence in that case in an obvious effort to assist his friend Comey," Davis explained.
The ruling creates a constitutional nightmare for Attorney General Pam Bondi's Justice Department.
A Clinton-appointed judge already dismissed Comey's indictment last month when Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that the appointment of Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was unconstitutional.
DOJ is appealing that decision to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
But the statute of limitations allows the government only six months after dismissal to seek a new indictment.
That clock is ticking while prosecutors are now blocked from reviewing the very evidence they need to build their case.
Kollar-Kotelly directed that a sealed copy of the emails be sent to Biden-appointed Judge Michael Nachmanoff, who presides over the Comey case in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Even with that copy preserved, her ruling bars the FBI and prosecutors from examining these communications.
"The FBI and the prosecution will be unable to review them in their efforts to seek a new indictment if Currie's dismissal ruling survives on appeal," Davis noted.
The inability to access this evidence substantially increases the time necessary to seek an indictment and would massively hamper the government's trial preparation.
Incredibly, Kollar-Kotelly suggested that Richman could move to quash this evidence in Virginia too.
She's going way out of her way to help Comey.
Communications on a government email account enjoy no reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment because the government can monitor its own email servers.
The government obtained the evidence through a lawful warrant signed by a federal judge six years ago.
Now a Clinton-appointed judge who isn't even part of the case is trying to prevent prosecutors from using it.
This fits a disturbing pattern where left-leaning judges have intensified lawfare against President Trump and his allies while simultaneously shielding the perpetrators of that lawfare from accountability.
Kollar-Kotelly has a track record of opposing Trump.
She blocked his ban on transgender individuals serving in the military in 2018.
She criticized Trump's role in the January 6 Capitol protest and blasted his pardons of January 6 defendants just weeks ago.
"Dismissal of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations of sentences will not change the truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," she wrote in a January order.
Now she's intervening in a case she has no jurisdiction over to protect one of Trump's most notorious enemies.
"If higher courts do not reign in these rogue judges, Congress must do so through oversight, withholding of funds from judicial appropriations, and impeachment," Davis argued.
The stakes couldn't be higher for the rule of law.
Comey helped launch the Russia hoax that paralyzed Trump's first term and cost taxpayers millions in Mueller's special counsel investigation.
He admitted to leaking classified information through Richman to spur the appointment of that special counsel.
He lied to Congress about it under oath.
Now partisan judges are working overtime to make sure he never faces consequences for weaponizing the FBI against a sitting president.
A system where the judiciary enables lawfare against conservatives and then shields leftist perpetrators from legal accountability is unsustainable.
Either the D.C. Circuit or Supreme Court must step in immediately to stop this judicial coup.
¹ Michael R. Davis, "Clinton-appointed judge once again sabotages DOJ's Comey case," Fox News, December 14, 2025.
² Tyler Durden, "Deep State Cover-Up: Clinton Judge Orders DESTRUCTION of Key Evidence in Case Against James Comey," Zero Hedge, December 16, 2025.
³ Matt Margolis, "Rogue Judge Orders Destruction of Evidence Against James Comey," PJ Media, December 15, 2025.
⁴ Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, "Order," U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, December 13, 2025.
⁵ "Judge orders return of evidence against Comey," The Washington Post, December 12, 2025.
