特朗普政府去年非法解雇了前联邦调查局（FBI）局长詹姆斯·科米的女儿莫琳·科米，她当时在纽约担任联邦检察官，联邦法官周一作出裁决。
The Trump administration last year illegally fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York, a federal judge ruled Monday.
莫琳·科米担任助理美国检察官长达十年，尽管她参与了国内一些最受关注的案件，且“始终获得上级和同事的最高赞誉”，但法官杰西·M·弗曼认定，她于2025年7月被非法解雇。
Maurene Comey, who was an assistant U.S. attorney for a decade, was illegally fired in July 2025 despite her work on some of the country's highest-profile cases and consistently receiving "the highest accolades from supervisors and peers alike," Judge Jesse M. Furman found.
被解雇后，科米起诉美国司法部等被告，称其解雇违反了宪法规定的三权分立、第一修正案以及第五修正案的正当程序条款。
After her firing, Comey sued the U.S. Justice Department and others saying her termination violated the constitutional separation of powers, the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
法官指出，她主张自己被解雇是因为她是詹姆斯·科米的女儿——美国总统唐纳德·特朗普长期视其为敌人——或者是因为她被认定的政治立场和信仰。
She asserted she was fired because she was the daughter of James Comey, whom U.S. President Donald Trump has long viewed as an enemy, or because of her perceived political affiliation and beliefs, the judge noted.
法官判令对科米进行追溯复职，并发放从被解雇之日起至12月20日的追溯薪酬，以“使她得到全面补偿”，并确保她不会因“非法解雇”而遭受不利的就业后果。在诉讼中，科米请求追溯薪酬，以便拿回工资并符合退休福利资格。今年2月，她受聘为纽约律师事务所Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler的合伙人。
The judge granted Comey retroactive reinstatement and back pay from the date of her firing through Dec. 20 to "make her whole" and ensure that she doesn't suffer adverse employment consequences for the "unlawful termination." In her lawsuit, Comey asked for the retroactive pay so that she could get back pay and qualify for retirement benefits. In February, she was hired as a partner at New York law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.
法官弗曼认定解雇违反宪法和法规：弗曼驳回了政府的主张，即联邦检察官行使总统的“决定性和排他性”权力，因此可以被解雇。
Firing violated constitution, statutes: judge Furman rejected the government's claim that Comey could be fired because federal prosecutors exercise the president's "conclusive and preclusive" powers.
他说，政府声称国会被禁止对联邦检察官的免职进行监管，“与近两个世纪的最高法院判例背道而驰”。
He said the government's claim that Congress is barred from regulating the removal of federal prosecutors "flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent."
弗尔曼补充道：“事实上，接受被告的论点就等于动摇本国宪法体制所建立的平衡。” 法官裁定，解雇违反了权力分立、《行政程序法》以及她的第五修正案正当程序和法定权利。
Furman added: "Indeed, to accept defendants' argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this nation's constitutional system." The firing violated the separation of powers, the Administrative Procedure Act and her Fifth Amendment due process and statutory rights, the judge ruled.
前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米因社交媒体帖子再次被起诉 | 《Hanomansing Tonight》2024年4月28日 播出时长弗尔曼对科米的第一修正案主张保留判决，待双方提交进一步论据后再行裁决，尽管他表示倾向于驳回该主张，因为该主张在她已转为私人执业且不再寻求实际复职的情况下基本上已无实际意义。
Former FBI director James Comey indicted again over social media post | Hanomansing Tonight April 28 Duration Furman reserved judgment on Comey's First Amendment claim pending further arguments to be submitted by each side, though he said he was inclined to dismiss the claim because it was largely moot since she is now in private practice and no longer seeks actual reinstatement.
科米的律师埃伦·布莱恩、妮可·格朗、迪帕·瓦纳马利和玛格丽特·多诺万对该裁决表示赞赏。
Comey's lawyers, Ellen Blain, Nicole Gueron, Deepa Vanamali and Margaret Donovan, lauded the ruling.
“此决定重申了我们根本的制衡体系：总统不凌驾于法律之上，”他们说。
"This decision reaffirms our bedrock system of checks and balances: the president is not above the law," they said.
在特朗普政府期间，司法部解雇了数十名职业员工，包括参与对总统唐纳德·特朗普调查的检察官和联邦调查局特工，或被视为反对政府议程的人员。其中一些解雇也导致了联邦诉讼。
The Justice Department, during the Trump administration, has fired scores of career employees, including prosecutors and FBI agents, who participated in investigations of President Donald Trump or who were perceived as opposed to the administration's agenda. Some of those firings have also resulted in federal lawsuits.
前联邦调查局局长科米的律师称政府追踪了他的手机，采访了黑帮杀手加文·纽瑟姆称特朗普指示美国司法部调查他。毛琳·科米的解雇被视为尤为私人化，因为她的父亲与特朗普长期存在对立关系。
Ex-FBI director Comey's lawyer says government tracked his phone, interviewed mob killer Gavin Newsom says Trump directed U.S. Justice Department to investigate him The firing of Maurene Comey was seen as particularly personal, given her father's longtime adversarial relationship with Trump.
总统于2017年5月解除了詹姆斯·科米的联邦调查局局长职务，当时该局正在调查俄罗斯与这名共和党人2016年成功竞选白宫之间的关联。此后数年，特朗普多次呼吁将科米关进监狱，其司法部也为实现这一目标采取了行动，但成效参差不齐。
The president fired James Comey as FBI director in May 2017 as the bureau was investigating ties between Russia and the Republican's successful 2016 campaign for the White House. In the years since, Trump has repeatedly called for Comey to be jailed, and his Justice Department has worked with mixed success to make that happen.
早先的一起刑事案件指控詹姆斯·科米在2020年向国会撒谎，该案已被一名法官驳回，该法官认定提起诉讼的检察官系非法任命。另有一份待审的起诉书指控这位前联邦调查局局长通过一张Instagram照片威胁特朗普，照片中是贝壳按“86 47”的数字排列，科米已寻求驳回此案，一些法律专家对此案持怀疑态度。
An earlier criminal case accusing James Comey of having lied to Congress in 2020 was dismissed by a judge who concluded that the prosecutor who filed the charges was illegally appointed. A separate pending indictment charges the former FBI director with threatening Trump through an Instagram photo of seashells in the numerical arrangement of "86 47," a case he has sought to dismiss and that some legal experts have greeted with skepticism.
詹姆斯·科米最初被起诉时，他的女婿小特洛伊·爱德华兹辞去了弗吉尼亚东区联邦助理检察官的职务。爱德华兹娶了科米的另一个女儿。
When James Comey was originally indicted, his son-in-law, Troy Edwards Jr., resigned from his position as assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He is married to another daughter of Comey's.
司法部和联邦调查局正面临多起法庭挑战，这些挑战与数十名律师和探员被解职有关，他们是在参与早先对特朗普的调查后被解职的，或者是因为被认为对这位共和党总统的议程不够忠诚。
The Justice Department and the FBI are facing a number of court challenges related to the ouster of dozens of attorneys and agents who were dismissed after participating in earlier investigations of Trump, or because they were perceived as insufficiently loyal to the Republican president's agenda.