Cat Got the Indictment Singer’s [sic] Tongue?
On October 28, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie — the senior South Carolina Judge who’ll preside over Jim Comey and Tish James’ challenges to Lindsey Halligan’s appointment — instructed the government to give her the grand jury transcripts.
The undersigned has been appointed to hear this motion and finds it necessary to determine the extent of the indictment signer’s involvement in the grand jury proceedings. Accordingly, the Government is directed to submit, no later than Monday, November 3, 2025, at 5:00 pm, for in camera review, all documents relating to the indictment signer’s participation in the grand jury proceedings, along with complete grand jury transcripts.
On October 30, Jim Comey submitted a motion describing all the reasons it might be useful for him to see those transcripts, too.
Although those motions must be decided on their own merits, the circumstances described in both motions raise a strong possibility that there were “irregularities in the grand jury proceedings” that would provide a “basis for dismissal of the indictment.” Nguyen, 314 F. Supp. 2d at 616 (citations omitted). Indeed, Judge Currie has already ordered the government to produce for in camera review “all documents relating to the indictment signer’s participation in the grand jury proceedings, along with complete grand jury transcripts.” ECF No. 95. Mr. Comey has argued that if Ms. Halligan alone secured and signed the indictment, dismissal would be required because she was unlawfully appointed.
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For similar reasons, disclosure of the grand jury materials is reasonably calculated to provide additional support for Mr. Comey’s argument that he would not have been prosecuted but for President Trump’s animus toward Mr. Comey, including because of his protected speech.
On October 31, the government delivered a package of grand jury transcripts to Judge Currie.
Only, they didn’t include “all documents relating to the indictment signer’s participation in the grand jury proceedings, along with complete grand jury transcripts.”
Judge Currie exhibited remarkable patience when instructing DOJ, for the second time, to give her all the transcripts.
On October 28, 2025, the undersigned entered an order directing the Government to submit, for in camera review, “all documents relating to the indictment signer’s participation in the grand jury proceedings, along with complete grand jury transcripts.” ECF No. 95. On Friday, October 31, 2025, the court received a package containing, inter alia, a “Transcript of Grand Jury proceedings on September 25, 2025.” This court has reviewed the transcript and finds it fails to include remarks made by the indictment signer both before and after the testimony of the sole witness, which remarks were referenced by the indictment signer during the witness’s testimony. In addition, the package contains no records or transcripts regarding the presentation of the three-count indictment referenced in the Transcript of the Return of Grand Jury Indictment Proceedings before the Magistrate Judge.
Did DOJ really think Currie is stupid enough for this to work?
What makes all of this exceptionally stupid, though, is that Pam Bondi described reading the transcripts before she ratified the prosecution back on October 31, the same day the transcripts mysteriously weren’t all delivered to Judge Currie.
In addition, based on my review of the grand jury proceedings in United States v. Corney and United States v. James, I hereby exercise the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U.S.C. § 509, 510, and 515, to ratify Ms. Halligan’s actions before the grand jury and her signature on the indictments by the grand jury in each case.
So whatever it is that led someone to withhold the most important parts of the Jim Comey transcript, Pam Bondi is now complicit in it.
And all of that will make it more likely that Judge Michael Nachmanoff will himself review the transcripts to see what all the fuss is about.
This is becoming almost as fun to read as Popehat’s Prenda Law saga…and I hope it ends for the antagonists in a very similar way.
We’re in the Twilight Zone, so not the next stop.
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This is the same Pam Bondi who backdated Halligan’s appointment to new and extra positions, but definitely not in ways that signals Bondi is accountable for mistakes made between September 22nd and present? That Pam Bondi? I definitely can see Nachmanoff and every single other judge presiding over an over-extended over-appointed AUSA situation requesting ALL of the documents and not taking the government’s word about the sun rising tomorrow.
With all of her interventions and pixie dust, AG Bondi is intent on bigfooting cases to help Convict-1. However, the abuse under color of authority to deny due process ought to get a judge or two to ask the relevant bar why that lawyer should have the license.
I saw the note about Prenda Law which is a case where a group of lawyers entrapped victims with bogus sexual misconduct claims and proceeded to extort them. Most of them were disbarred and got jail time. One of them still practices after telling a judge 12 years ago that he shouldn’t be hammered because he had terminal cancer.
Indictment Singer, she’s the one
The one with the minus touch
His Highness’ touch
Bought and sold singer
Beckoned into centers of evil spin
She jumped right in
https://youtu.be/-orFtcORyuM
Shirley Bassey – GOLDFINGER (2011 Live)
I unusually did try to think of a theme song before I posted.
Should have just trusted you!!
LOL, thanks, Marcy. And here I was thinking this one might not be so good. But Shirley Bassey is fantastic, so I couldn’t pass it up.