Letitia James built her career on the politics of prosecution. From the moment she took office as New York’s attorney general, she made Donald Trump her central target—promising to “get him” before even seeing the evidence.
She filed sprawling civil fraud suits against the former president, led the charge to dissolve his business empire, and styled herself as the face of Democratic legal resistance. But now, the roles are reversed: She finds herself accused of legal violations eerily similar to the ones she claimed were committed by Donald Trump.
A federal judge just tossed the criminal case against her, but a new legal issue has arisen for the New York attorney general — and this one may end her career for good.