Overview

• After months investigating alleged mortgage fraud by New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert concluded there was no criminal case and resigned under pressure Friday.
• President Trump asserted on Truth Social, “He didn’t quit, I fired him!” and separately said James “looks… very guilty of something, but I really don’t know.”
• Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed Martin told reporters, “If they can be charged, we’ll charge them,” and, “If they can’t be charged, we will name them.”
• The Baltimore Sun’s editorial argues the president will expect Siebert’s successor to pursue charges regardless of investigators’ assessments, with no replacement yet identified.
• The editorial invokes Berger v. United States and the Watergate “Saturday Night Massacre” to warn that political pressure on prosecutors threatens DOJ independence.