James Comey will appear in court for an arraignment Wednesday, after the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of criminally charging the former FBI director and Trump foe in late September.

Comey was ordered to report to court in Northern Virginia at 10 a.m., almost two weeks after a grand jury in the same federal courthouse indicted him on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation five years ago.

Comey has said he's innocent, saying in a video after he was indicted , "let's have a trial." His wife, Patrice, and daughter, Maurene, a former federal prosecutor in New York, will be in attendance at the proceeding. Maurene Comey was fired by the Justice Department in July and has since sued the Trump administration over her ouster.

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