...I think this new ruling by Judge Jesse Furman in the Southern District of New York may unlock Epstein's scandal as well as help get her job back, because Judge Furman has just ruled that she gets to keep her case in Federal court...The Department of Justice argued, well, she was an employee of the federal government. She's got to go through the Civil Service Reform Act....

The Judge says "No, because you didn't fire her under the Civil Service Reform Act...You fired her under Article II. She gets to stay in federal court...

She got a 20-year conviction, five counts of child sex trafficking against Ghislaine Maxwell. Maurene Comey. That's who did it...

...but my working theory, and I heard Katie Phang say the same thing, is that she got canned because they wanted her out of the way before they interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell... When she got fired I was like "Huh? While you're dealing with Ghislaine and the Epstein scandal you fire the prosecutor for Ghislaine Maxwell?!"...

So now, in discovery, they'll start getting all the documents and documentation about why she was terminated... what was the thought process behind Todd Blanche approving the firing before his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell?

Katie Phang:
...The timing of her termination speaks directly to the deployment of Todd Blanche to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell because he went less than a week after she was fired. And Maurene Comey was the lead trial prosecutor in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, and in the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein. She knows those cases. She knew that evidence better than anybody. And she would have been the natural, logical person to send to do the limited immunity, "queen for a day" meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, because she would have known -- her bullshit meter would have been so powerful, right? And she would have been able to say "You're lying, Ghislaine. I know what the evidence is." Right? But they intentionally sent dumbass Blanche because Todd is the perfect patsy for it, because he knows that if he goes in blind, he doesn't sit there -- he can't gauge the truth. He's just going to like sit there and, like I said, do each other's nails and braid each other's hair...

Which is why I like this illegal termination lawsuit because I think there's a colorable argument that Comey's lawyers could explore -- the Why of it - Right? And maybe there's an Epstein link to it. I think it exists. I think all roads are leading back to Epstein on this one.

Michael Popok:
Look, you and I have agreed from the very beginning. She was the sacrificial lamb to get her out of the way so that when -- as you said -- when Blanche went and did the interview, he didn't have her as an earworm in his ear saying "She's lying to you." Because he didn't want to know if she was lying to him because that's not his purpose of going to interview. You know, the five-year prosecutor of the case who knows every document like the back of her hand and every witness statement -- you don't bring to the meeting?!?

Top line, Maurene Comey has an interesting employment litigation matter.

Get down to the nitty-gritty -- the molecular level -- Maurene Comey is the key, because if she starts going after the Department of Justice, where she worked, for all the documents between the Department of Justice and the White House -- between Trump and Todd Blanche, and the rest, about Ghislaine Maxwell, about Epstein, about Maurene Comey's role as prosecutor of those two, about the rationale for her firing. Now we're litigating in open court the Epstein scandal. Right? See? As I said at the top, Trump maybe should worry less about James Comey and indicting him for some sea shell conversation and more about Maurene Comey, who's now a partner at a great firm in Manhattan, Patterson Bellnap...