The Justice Department’s latest move to re-indict former FBI Director James Comey on April 28, 2026 over a now-deleted Instagram post — an arrangement of seashells prosecutors say formed “86 47” and amounted to a threat against President Trump — has ignited fury among conservatives who see yet another example of selective prosecution. Comey’s indictment in the Eastern District of North Carolina marks the second time in less than a year he has been charged, and he has publicly declared his innocence.
Veteran jurist Andrew Napolitano told viewers on Wake Up America that the government’s case is weak and described the indictment as frivolous and unlikely to survive to a jury, underscoring how politicized prosecutions have become under this Justice Department. His blunt assessment echoes a wider conservative conviction that career prosecutors are being used as political weapons rather than guardians of equal justice.
This isn’t coming out of nowhere: a federal judge tossed earlier charges in November 2025 after finding that the original prosecutor had been unlawfully appointed, a ruling that many of us warned at the time would unravel prosecutorial overreach. The Nov. 24, 2025 dismissal showed that procedural sleights — not exculpatory evidence — have repeatedly rescued defendants targeted by politicized special prosecutions.
Independent judges have also flagged “profound investigative missteps” by the Justice Department during this saga, including alleged grand-jury irregularities and misleading presentations that raise serious due-process questions. Those aren’t small procedural quibbles; they are the kinds of failures that should alarm every American who cares about the rule of law and the integrity of our courts.
Patriotic Americans should see this for what it is: a pattern of politically motivated lawfare aimed at silencing enemies of the administrative state and rewarding its allies. The proper remedy is not cheering for retaliatory prosecutions but demanding accountability — for the DOJ to stop playing politics, for judges to enforce the law without fear or favor, and for citizens to hold elected officials accountable at the ballot box.
