A grand jury declined to indict Letitia James on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the decision, a decision that came less than two weeks after a judge ruled that a similar mortgage fraud case brought by federal prosecutors against the New York attorney general was unlawful.

The move by the justice department to present the case again to a grand jury was seen as a signal of its determination to prosecute James, who has been one of Donald Trump’s top political foes ever since she successfully brought a fraud lawsuit against him in New York .

James was first charged in October with one count of bank fraud and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution. The charges are in connection to a mortgage she obtained for a home in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020.

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