He has attacked “radical” judges who rule against him; punished media and law firms he views as hostile; and replaced career civil servants with political loyalists.
Seven months after coming back into office, insisting the justice system had been weaponized against him, President Donald Trump has reshaped it to suit his agenda in a way no other American president ever has.
And on Friday, that agenda took another vengeful turn, when Attorney General Pam Bondi opened a criminal investigation against one of Trump’s biggest adversaries: New York Attorney General Letitia James.
What stands out about the administration’s latest plot is not that a probe was launched against a Democratic nemesis, but the rationale for launching it.
James was elected New York’s attorney general in 2018, vowin