Norfolk, Virginia — New York Attorney General Letitia James will be appearing in court Friday for her arraignment on federal charges of bank fraud in Norfolk, Virginia, after the Justice Department indicted her earlier this month. U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker, appointed to the federal bench by former President Joe Biden, is presiding over the…
Former federal ethics officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations are asking the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. In a letter obtained by CBS News, ethics officials who worked in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations urged…
Lawrence O’Donnall compared the Trump-backed indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to former President Richard Nixon’s infamous “enemies list,” saying a key distinction of Nixon’s list is that those named continued to thrive despite being the late Republican’s adversaries. “Most important thing to know about the [Nixon] enemies list is…
(Reuters) -New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday filed a lawsuit and an emergency motion seeking a temporary restraining order against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and the department, accusing them of unlawfully withholding nearly $34 million in funding requested by the state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The MTA is the state…
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey finally gives President Donald Trump a criminal case against one of his perceived enemies. Trump has long blamed Comey for the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But the price of bringing such an overtly politicized case, with what appears to be extremely weak evidence,…
A conservative lawyer who has said she was falsely accused of being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been named to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to a copy of an email she sent to staff obtained by CBS News. The Virginia office was…
It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet. The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show taken off the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, once a casino owner and always a man in search of his next deal, is fond of a poker analogy when sizing up partners and adversaries. “We have much bigger and better cards than they do,” he said of China last month. Compared with Canada, he said in June,…
New York’s attorney general moved Thursday to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty, appealing a lower-court decision that slashed the potential half-billion-dollar fine to $0. Attorney General Letitia James’ office filed a notice of appeal with the state’s Court of Appeals, seeking to reverse the mid-level Appellate Division’s ruling…
The legal fight over US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs is deepening after a federal appeal court ruled the levies were issued illegally under an emergency law, extending the chaos in global trade. A 7-4 decision by a panel of judges on Friday night in Washington was a major setback for Trump even as it…