New York attorney general challenges authority of federal prosecutor investigating her Trump lawsuits Nation Dec 4, 2025 1:51 PM EST

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los Angeles were all serving unlawfully.

Now, another federal judge has considered an argument by New York Attorney General Letitia James that the administration also twisted the law to make John Sarcone the acting U.S. attorney for northern New York.

The court hearing Thursday was scheduled as James challenges Sarcone’s authority to oversee a Justice Department investigation into regulatory lawsuits she filed a

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