A United States judge has ruled that former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was illegally fired by the administration of President Donald Trump. US District Judge Jesse Furman said on Monday that the Trump administration had overstepped the boundaries of executive authority when it fired so-called “inferior officers” without cause. He rejected the administration’s position that the president had the power to undertake such firings, regardless of the protections implemented by Congress. “To accept defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this nation’s constitutional system,” Furman wrote.
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