Maurene Comey Firing Ruled Illegal

"To accept Defendants' argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system," the judge wrote.

Maurene Comey served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan for around a decade, working on high-profile cases against defendants like Sean "Diddy" Combs, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The president removed James Comey from his post as FBI director in May 2017 while the agency investigated potential links between Russia and the Republican's victorious 2016 campaign.

Following her dismissal, she sued the Justice Department and other officials, alleging that her termination violated the constitutional separation of powers, the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.