DoJ investigates Letitia James for civil rights violations amid Trump probe.
Live by the lawfare sword. Die by the lawfare sword.
Or did Democrats believe themselves immune to the precedents they set over the last four years?
Having knocked down all the trees of precedent and law to get to the ‚devil‘ — or at least their conception of it — they now find themselves stunned to discover they have no cover when the devil has turned on them. Having run a politicized lawsuit against Donald Trump, and having campaigned on doing so, New York Attorney General now faces a criminal probe into civil-rights violations for abusing her office. And Donald Trump isn’t the only victim that the Department of Justice is investigating, either:
The U.S. attorney in Albany has issued two broad subpoenas to Attorney General Letitia James of New York, one related to her office’s civil fraud case that resulted in a half-billion dollar penalty against President Trump, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
The second subpoena is related to another of the office’s long-running cases, against the National Rifle Association, the people said. .
Two people familiar with the matter said the new subpoenas are part of a civil rights investigation of the state attorney general office’s work, to determine if the office violated Mr. Trump’s rights, or others.
James has retained super-attorney Abbe Lowell, who immediately decried this as a „dangerous escalation.“ He’s more right than he knows, although don’t expect him to admit it:
Ms. James’s personal lawyer, Abbe Lowell, on Friday called any investigation into Mr. Trump’s fraud case “the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign.”
“Weaponizing the Department of Justice to try to punish an elected official for doing her job is an attack on the rule of law and a dangerous escalation by this administration,” he said. “If prosecutors carry out this improper tactic and are genuinely interested in the truth, we are ready and waiting with facts and the law.
