Maurene Comey, the daughter of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, has sued the Department of Justice and Attorney Pam Bondi over her firing as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York in July.

Elizabeth Stauffer covered the firing. She mentioned Comey worked on numerous high-profile cases such as Sean “Diddy Combs, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Comey claims the firing came a “day after the U.S. Attorney’s Office had asked her to take the lead on a major public corruption case and just three months after her latest receipt of an ‘Outstanding’ review.”

The email had no explanation except that the termination is “‘[p]ursuant to Article II of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States.'”

“Ms. Comey’s termination—without cause, without advance notice, and without any opportunity to contest it—was unlawful and unconstitutional,” according to the complaint. “In addition to her fundamental constitutional rights, Ms. Comey had statutory protections under the Civil Service Reform Act (“CSRA”) that governed how and why she could be terminated, including specific prohibitions against termination for discriminatory reasons such as political affiliation. Her termination violated every one of those protections.”

Comey insists the DOJ has “no legitimate explanation” for her firing.

Instead, Comey accuses the DOJ of firing her “solely or substantially because her father is former FBI Director James B. Comey, or because of her perceived political affiliation and beliefs, or both.”

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