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The Indictment of AG Letitia James Is an Assault on the Rule of Law
October 10, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) — The indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James represents a deeply troubling moment for our justice system. It is the latest sign of a dangerous trend: the weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to punish public officials for fulfilling their constitutionally mandated responsibilities. This kind of political retribution is the opposite of justice.
This indictment was not brought because AG James broke the law, but because she held Donald Trump accountable for his own illegal conduct.
True law and order require that our justice system operates with integrity, independence, and accountability, not as a tool of political vengeance. Prosecutors have a constitutional and ethical duty to follow the facts and evidence wherever they lead, including choosing not to file charges when the evidence is insufficient to support them, as prior DOJ prosecutors had concluded regarding AG James. That commitment to restraint is not weakness; it is the foundation of fairness.
Targeting an elected prosecutor for carrying out her responsibilities undermines the rule of law and erodes public trust in our institutions. The law exists to ensure public safety and to protect the pursuit of justice, not to instill fear in those who uphold it. When accountability is met with retaliation, we move away from law and order and toward lawless authoritarianism.
Equally concerning is the waste of public resources devoted to defending such baseless claims. Every hour and dollar spent on politically motivated prosecutions is time and money taken away from real efforts to keep our communities safe.
The American people deserve a justice system guided by evidence, fairness, and ethics, applied with consistency and rooted in intellectual honesty, not one driven by political score settling.
Fair and Just Prosecution’s Executive Director Aramis Ayala had the following statement:
“Weaponizing the Department of Justice to target public servants who seek accountability is an assault on the rule of law itself. What we are witnessing is not about law and order; it is about power and political payback. Every attorney in America, especially prosecutors, should be alarmed. When politics replaces evidence and retribution replaces reason, our justice system ceases to serve the people and only serves the powerful. That is not justice. That is tyranny dressed up as law enforcement.”