Oct 28, 2026 · 1h 1m
Comey case tests Trump Justice Department’s legal strategy
Bad Day For Fascists (feat. Adam Klasfeld)
The episode examines whether the prosecution of Jim Comey and Alaska election litigation reflect broader efforts to use federal law enforcement against political targets and election administration.
- 1Adam Klasfeld explains how the Comey case’s timing, charging method, and statute-of-limitations concerns shape the motion to dismiss.
- 2The discussion frames Alaska election litigation as an attempt to interfere with certification and compares it with resistance during the 2020 election.
- 3Listener stories about activism, LGBTQ senior housing, and lifelong resistance shift the episode from legal conflict toward community resilience.
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Adam Klasfeld explains why the Comey case’s charging method and deadline timing could become central to the motion to dismiss.
The brief
Allison Gill opens with major political and legal developments before Adam Klasfeld joins to examine the newly unsealed criminal case against Jim Comey.
Klasfeld and Gill focus on why prosecutors used a criminal information rather than a grand-jury indictment, and whether filing near the deadline strengthens Comey’s motion to dismiss.
The conversation widens to Trump’s Justice Department, an unusual legal team, and Alaska litigation that seeks to affect election certification depending on the outcome.
The episode closes with listener stories about voting, LGBTQ senior housing, political resistance, and a mother whose lifelong activism made “good trouble” a family inheritance.
The legal analysis and community dispatches meet at the same question: how institutions and ordinary people respond when democratic norms come under pressure.
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