Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Former FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to argue that his indictment is selective prosecution because President Donald Trump ordered it as revenge.
The hearing will be in Alexandria, Va., before U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff.
Comey is facing charges of making a false statement and obstruction from a testimony he gave before Congress in 2020. On Monday, a judge in the case said that "government misconduct" by prosecutor U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan could disqualify the case and ordered the prosecution to hand over all documents from the secret grand jury proceedings.
In September, Trump demanded Comey's prosecution before the statute of limitations ran out, but Attorney General Pam Bondi struggled to find someone to prosecute.
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