(The Hill) -- Troy A. Edwards, Jr., the son-in-law of James Comey, stepped down as the Justice Department's (DOJ) senior national security prosecutor Thursday after the former FBI director was indicted by a federal grand jury.

“To uphold my oath to the Constitution and country, I hereby resign as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in the Department of Justice effective immediately,” Edwards wrote to Lindsey Halligan, the acting U.S. Attorney in Virginia’s Eastern District, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by multiple news outlets.

Edwards worked in the same U.S. Attorney’s Office that brought the two-count indictment against Comey, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump. Edwards was the deputy chief of the national security section, a

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