Comey indictment - Reuters reports second case

Second time: Reuters reported that the Justice Department has indicted former FBI Director James Comey again, with the charges and venue still unclear reuters.com. For the tape, the clean frame is contained versus escalatory: if this is mostly a cleaner refile after the prior case was dismissed over the prosecutor's appointment, markets may treat it as political headline risk rather than a new macro input, consistent with CRS's summary of the earlier dismissal congress.gov. The more material version is if the charging papers, once public, show broader counts or a venue choice that turns this from procedural retry into a bigger test around the Instagram post at issue instagram.com, which ABC's reporting says could hinge on whether prosecutors can show a "true threat" with sweeping First Amendment implications abcnews.com. In our view, the headline alone may not be the move while Reuters still has the basic charge sheet unclear; what would change the read is a filing that looks less like a narrow redo and more like the broader constitutional fight ABC says this case could become.