News Summary

• Julian Zelizer: The prosecution of James Comey springs from Donald Trump’s desire for payback against a bitter political enemy.
• He says the DOJ has coupled bad motives with straightforward incompetence.
• When rookie prosecutors take over complicated cases, rookie mistakes happen, he says.
• Zelizer says a federal judge found that a prosecutor made “a fundamental and highly prejudicial misstatement of the law” to the grand jury in the Comey case.
• The judge also found that the prosecutor’S mishandling of key evidence “may rise to the level of government misconduct”