On Oct. 9, the US Justice Department issued an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution related to a mortgage on a Virginia property.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy were not given notice that a Trump-allied prosecutor in Virginia planned to indict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, for bank fraud on Thursday afte...

Ms. James has called the charges “baseless” and said the indictment was “nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.”