Overview

• The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York issued subpoenas to Attorney General Letitia James seeking records tied to her 2022 civil fraud suit against President Trump and her NRA lawsuit.
• Federal prosecutors are examining whether James’s litigation in those cases violated President Trump’s civil rights.
• Justice Department Secretary Pam Bondi has appointed Ed Martin as special counsel in a separate FBI mortgage-fraud investigation into James’s residential loan documents.
• James and her attorney, Abbe D. Lowell, have labeled the subpoenas and the mortgage-fraud inquiry as politically motivated attacks on judicial independence.
• Observers warn that the expanded probes intensify concerns over the politicization of federal law enforcement and pressures on state judicial processes.