A federal grand jury this week has turned down a Justice Department bid to reindict New York Attorney General Letitia James, a perceived political adversary of President Donald Trump.
The failure to make a second attempt at indicting James occurred about two weeks after a judge tossed out a similar mortgage fraud case against James because the prosecution by Trump appointee and real estate lawyer Lindsey Halligan was deemed unlawful, National Review‘s senior editor Andrew C. McCarthy noted Friday.
“While the case against James should never have been brought in the first place, the grand jury’s no true bill is not necessarily the end of the matter,” McCarthy wrote. “The Constitution’s double-jeopardy safeguard protects a person from being tried multiple times on the same charges, not from being charged multiple times. Consequently, Thursday’s filing of a no true bill does not bar the Trump DOJ from trying to convince another grand jury to indict.”
James has argued that the president’s attacks on her are personal — a result of her fraud case against Trump. And it appears she was right, McCarthy added.
“As is typical of lawfare in Trump’s second term as president, the allegations against James have nothing to do with the abuse of power that drew the president’s ire,” McCarthy wrote.
It could be time for the administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi to end their attack on one of Trump’s nemeses.
“This is a humiliating development nevertheless for Attorney General Bondi and her department. She should try to persuade her headstrong boss that enough is enough. But the rest of us ought not hold our breath,” McCarthy wrote.
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