{"id":149875,"date":"2026-04-29T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/29\/meet-the-federal-district-judge-overseeing-james-comeys-new-criminal-case\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:44:55","slug":"meet-the-federal-district-judge-overseeing-james-comeys-new-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/29\/meet-the-federal-district-judge-overseeing-james-comeys-new-criminal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Federal District Judge Overseeing James Comey’s New Criminal Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan has presided over thousands of controversies as an Article III judge, including a high-profile terrorism conspiracy case where she handed down hefty prison sentences years before being assigned to the 2026 federal criminal case charging former FBI Director James Comey with unlawfully threatening to kill President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan has presided over thousands of controversies as an Article III judge, including a high-profile terrorism conspiracy case where she handed down hefty prison sentences years before being assigned to the 2026 federal criminal case charging former FBI Director James Comey with unlawfully threatening to kill President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan has presided over thousands of controversies as an Article III judge, including a high-profile terrorism conspiracy case where she handed down hefty prison sentences years before being assigned to the 2026 federal criminal case charging former FBI Director James Comey with unlawfully threatening to kill President Donald Trump. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-5T9SrR.jpg?fit=768%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}