{"id":2600265,"date":"2026-05-08T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-to-cancel-comeys-north-carolina-court-appearance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:50:01","slug":"judge-to-cancel-comeys-north-carolina-court-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-to-cancel-comeys-north-carolina-court-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge to cancel Comey&#8217;s North Carolina court appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-to-cancel-comeys-north-carolina-court-appearance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2600265&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A North Carolina federal judge is considering whether to cancel former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s scheduled Friday court appearance, after his attorneys argued he already made an initial appearance in a related case in Alexandria, virginia.Judge Louise Flanagan said she would cancel the hearing if Comey filed a waiver by Friday morning; the waiver was submitted with DOJ support.<\/p>\n<p>Comey was indicted last week on charges tied to a now-deleted Instagram post that prosecutors say carried threatening implications toward President Donald Trump. The post allegedly featured shells arranged to form \u201c86 47,\u201d with critics interpreting \u201c86\u201d as \u201cget rid of\u201d and \u201c47\u201d as a reference to Trump being the 47th president.Comey has denied wrongdoing and has not entered a plea. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment represents Comey\u2019s second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-appointee-drops-charges-against-judge-who-allegedly-helped-illegal-immigrant-avoid-capture\/\" title=\"Biden Appointee Drops Charges Against Judge Who Allegedly Helped Illegal Immigrant Avoid Capture\">federal criminal prosecution<\/a> since Trump returned to the White House, following an earlier September indictment involving allegations that Comey lied to Congress about leaks to the press.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/north-carolina\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"552\">North Carolina<\/a> federal judge is poised to cancel former <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"516\">FBI<\/a> Director <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-comey\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"169\">James Comey\u2019s<\/a> second court appearance after his attorneys argued he already made an initial appearance in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-rats-will-turn-on-each-other-bessent-announces-plan-to-make-minnesota-fraudsters-flip-on-accomplices\/\" title=\"&#039;These Rats Will Turn on Each Other&#039;: Bessent Announces Plan to Make Minnesota Fraudsters Flip on Accomplices\">related federal case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comey, who led the FBI from 2013 to 2017, was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4546191\/james-comey-indicted-second-time-report\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4546191\/james-comey-indicted-second-time-report\/\">indicted last week<\/a> over a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >social media post prosecutors allege carried threatening implications<\/a> toward President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4559980\/splc-not-guilty-plea-fraud-case\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Southern Poverty Law Center pleads not guilty as CEO vows to fight fraud case<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4559756\/fox-news-additional-discovery-smartmatic-case\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Fox News granted additional discovery in Smartmatic voting machine case<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4559200\/lawyer-handling-key-trump-litigation-depart-doj\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Lawyer handling key Trump litigation to depart DOJ later this month<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Comey\u2019s lawyers asked the court to cancel Friday\u2019s scheduled hearing in North Carolina, arguing that he had already appeared in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, in connection with the same alleged threats. In a filing, the defense said federal criminal procedure rules provide \u201cfor an initial appearance in the singular.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan, a former President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-w-bush\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"697\">George W. Bush<\/a> appointee, said she would cancel the hearing if Comey submitted a waiver by Friday morning. If no waiver was filed, the hearing would proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>In their motion, Comey\u2019s attorneys said he was willing to sign \u201cany necessary waiver to give the Court additional comfort if the Court so desires.\u201d Comey later filed the waiver with the support of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"438\">Department of Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-man-charged-with-threatening-to-murder-2-us-congressmen\/\" title=\"Missouri Man Charged With Threatening to Murder 2 US Congressmen\">federal grand jury<\/a> in North Carolina indicted Comey over a now-deleted Instagram post that showed shells arranged to spell out \u201c86 47,\u201d alongside the caption: \u201cCool shell formation on my beach walk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump allies and other critics interpreted the message as a threat against the president, as \u201c86\u201d is slang for \u201cget rid of\u201d and \u201c47\u201d refers to Trump as the 47th president. Comey has denied wrongdoing and has not yet entered a plea.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While President Trump is currently on an international trip to the Middle East, the former FBI Director puts out what can clearly be interpreted as \u201ca hit\u201d on the sitting President of the United States\u2014a message etched in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>This is deeply concerning to all of us and is\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RF0Dl3t1JF\">pic.twitter.com\/RF0Dl3t1JF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Budowich (@Taylor47) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Taylor47\/status\/1923128430415184173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Comey is charged with threatening to kill a president and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, according to the indictment. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The case marks the second criminal prosecution Comey has faced since Trump returned to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" type=\"category\" id=\"125\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4552833\/thom-tillis-86-comey-trump-seashells\/\"><strong>TILLIS SAYS \u201986\u2019 HAS ROOTS IN RESTAURANT INDUSTRY AFTER COMEY INDICTED FOR ALLEGED TRUMP POST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September 2025, Comey was indicted on separate charges alleging he lied to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"31\">Congress<\/a> about leaks to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Comey have had a contentious relationship since Trump fired him as FBI director in 2017, a move that later became a central focus of former special counsel <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/robert-mueller\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"320\">Robert Mueller\u2019s<\/a> investigation into <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"80\">Russian<\/a> interference in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina judge may cancel Comey\u2019s second appearance after defense cites a prior related federal appearance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4195,"featured_media":2600266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25323072751462.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10123,33791,51149,4431],"class_list":["post-2600265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-courts","tag-federal-judge","tag-james-comey","tag-legal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25323072751462.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600269,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600265\/revisions\/2600269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}