ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For President Donald Trump, the New York attorney general’s office has been a nemesis for years, one whose sting has grown more potent during his rocky tenure in office. Letitia James, who emerged Thursday [9-13-18] as the Democratic nominee for New York’s top prosecutor, is expected to create more headaches for Trump by accelerating and adding to a raft of state-led investigations into his government and business empire. Democrats are aiming to regain control of Congress in the fall to act as a check on Trump. Should that fail to happen, though, state attorneys general will remain high among his primary antagonists as he faces legal troubles on multiple fronts. The New York office has prime importance: Trump is a native New Yorker, and his company, the Trump Organization, and its various offshoots are based in Manhattan, under the attorney general’s jurisdiction.”
–Reuters Staff, “James, NY Democratic Attorney General Nominee, to Aim at Trump,” The New York Times online, September 14, 2018