Hunch. Judge McFadden set a one-week schedule for the written arguments and heard the motion on 30 October, two weeks after it was filed.
The ruling market resolves YES if by 23:59 US Eastern time on 8 January 2027 the court docket shows an order by Judge Trevor McFadden that grants, partly grants or refuses Comey's request of 16 October to throw out the charge, or sets it aside because the case has ended. The Guardian or BBC News confirm it, and two of The Guardian, BBC News and The Independent settle it if the docket cannot be opened.
We looked for cases where a US prosecutor filed a charge alone, without a grand jury, before the legal time limit ran out, and the person charged asked a federal judge to throw it out. We found nine such rulings from 1997 to 2023. Judges refused six times and threw out the charge three times. Four of the nine came from one court in southern Florida.