Kerry Johnson

Trump has called the former head of the FBI a piece of garbage, a liar and a leaker and a weasel who should be in jail.

It's rare to get a case dismissed on the ground of vindictive prosecution, but Comey says at minimum the judge should let him explore evidence within the Justice Department about how he came to be charged with a crime.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

President Trump fired Comey as the FBI director in 2017, and Comey went on to become a fierce critic.

The Justice Department won an indictment against Comey for allegedly misleading and obstructing Congress under pressure from Trump, who's called him a dirty cop and a slimeball.

Now Comey's moving to dismiss the case because he says it's a vindictive or selective prosecution.

He says at least four top officials during President Trump's first term allegedly lied to Congress and none of them was charged with any crimes.

The president's animus against Comey is so intense that the Justice Department recently fired Comey's daughter without any clear reason.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

James eventually will have her day in court just like Jim Comey did.

And President Trump has said recently more action may be coming against people who have crossed him.

We know prosecutors have been looking at the former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

His home was searched by the FBI this year.

They've also been looking at California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, a vocal critic of Trump who says he's done nothing wrong.

One case involves the president sweeping tariffs.

Two others involve the firing of a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission and Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board.

There are a few more cases on the emergency docket now that could get a full hearing from the Supreme Court.

A White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, says the Supreme Court has consistently upheld the Trump administration's policies despite an unprecedented number of legal challenges.

She says the president will continue to carry out the policy agenda the voters elected him to pursue and that he will be vindicated by higher courts.

Well, let's start with the Justice Department, my focus, where new leaders have basically swept the top ranks of the civil service. They've fired prosecutors who worked on cases against Donald Trump and against people who stormed the Capitol. They've fired the top ethics officials, the pardon attorney, the person in charge of Freedom of Information Act requests.