Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be arraigned in federal court today.

Comey is charged with lying to Congress and obstruction of a criminal proceeding related to his 2020 testimony about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The indictment alleges Comey lied when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports." The DOJ contends Comey had authorized a person to serve as an anonymous source regarding an FBI investigation, which he denies.

He was indicted just days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute his perceived political enemies.

Comey has denied the charges and says he will fight them in court.

If convicted, he faces up to five years in

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