Judiciary
Longtime federal decide assigned to James Comey legal case
On this July 2003 file photograph, Louise Flanagan is sworn in by then-Chief Choose Terrence Boyle of the Jap District of North Carolina in Greenville, North Carolina, as her husband, Michael Flanagan, watches. (Photograph by Jessica Webb/The Every day Reflector by way of the Related Press)
A federal decide in North Carolina, who has greater than twenty years of expertise on the federal bench, has been assigned the brand new legal case charging former FBI Director James Comey with allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Choose Louise Flanagan of the Jap District of North Carolina obtained the random case task Tuesday after a grand jury indicted Comey on allegations that he threatened Trump when he posted a photograph on Instagram depicting seashells in an “86 47” sample in Might 2025.
Flanagan, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, has presided over hundreds of circumstances throughout her time as an Article III decide. The U.S. Senate confirmed Flanagan as a federal district courtroom decide in July 2003. She beforehand served as a federal Justice of the Peace decide and labored at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Washington, D.C., earlier than it merged with Dentons, in response to a story by Law.com.
She obtained media consideration in 2011 for overseeing a terrorism conspiracy prosecution that secured convictions of a number of defendants. In United States v. Sherifi, a jury discovered defendant Hysen Sherifi responsible of conspiring to assault the Quantico Marine Corps Base. Flanagan sentenced Sherifi to 540 months, or 45 years, in jail, in response to Legislation.com.
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