Letitia James
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172 appearances
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5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 13 Jan
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of this great country and our respective state.
Yeah, it has a chilling effect on immigrants, again, who are witnesses to violent crimes, not only here in New York, but all across this country. It's also important to understand that if in fact they had an issue with how the judge handled the matter, they should have brought it up before the judicial committee that oversees the behavior, supervises the behavior of judges.
There's a disciplinary committee. that's responsible for judges. That's where it should have been handled as opposed to arresting a judge who was basically engaging in, you know, administering her courtroom and making sure that there was no chaos and confusion in her courtroom.
It's also important to note that as the, you know, we see the facts that the ICE agents had an administrative warrant as opposed to a judicial warrant. And so This administrative warrant did not have the force of an arrest. I believe they were just there to question the individual, perhaps take him into custody at some point in time.
But there was no requirement that the judge immediately hand over that individual. And so to avoid chaos in her courtroom, you know, she allowed the individual to exit. A side door where the ICE agents were did affect an arrest of the individual.
But again, if they had a problem with how the judge handled it, they should have filed a complaint with the appropriate authorities as opposed to arresting a judge who has consistently and repeatedly followed the law.
I haven't seen you in a while. Five million. For $5 million, this could be yours. That was the first of the cards. You know what that card is?
Yeah, we secured a $454 million judgment against Donald Trump at all. and is based on his exaggerated, overinflated assets for the purposes of securing favorable insurance and mortgage terms. And what we are witnessing in the White House is more grift, and it's unfortunate. And right now, you know, federal agencies that once had jurisdiction to investigate these types of offenses.
Those agencies right now have been hollowed out. One of the cases that we have brought is against the federal government for terminating thousands and thousands of probationary workers. You also know that this administration has often buyouts has often offered buyouts to federal employees. So a number of these agencies are no longer following the mission of their agency.
And a number of these agencies have basically been hollowed out. And it's unfortunate that the president of the United States is using the White House to basically engage in, to basically enrich himself and others.
So, you know, obviously, you know, the Office of the Attorney General has jurisdiction over the Martin Act and we have jurisdiction over these pump and dump schemes, which happen frequently. And we do police Wall Street. And all that I can say is that we've been looking at a lot of this conduct at this point in time to determine whether or not it's actionable.
It's every single day. Listen, I'm on. He indicated that I was on his enemies list with others. And so all of these baseless allegations that have been refuted, it's nothing more than retribution. It's nothing more than the weaponization of the federal government. And we just continue to stay focused.
here in the New York State Office of the Attorney General focused on our mission to enforce the law. The vast majority of my time here in this office is spent on consumer fraud, on landlord-tenant, on protecting tenants, protecting seniors, protecting children, passing legislation. protecting individuals from fraud on Wall Street, looking at monopolies and looking at scams and data breaches.
The vast majority of my time is focused, again, on enforcing the laws in the state of New York. It's true that most recently we've had to make sure that due process is followed and the laws in our Constitution and the state constitution are enforced here as a result of all of these executive orders that have been issued by this administration, which do not have the force of law.
executive orders which basically violate separation of power and violate Congress's power of the purse and also violate Article 10 of the United States Constitution against anti-commandeering, basically directing New York State and other states to follow suit and to be in compliance with the federal government and their wishes.
And we've been standing up saying that we are a sovereign state and we're going to enforce the law and we're going to protect marginalized and vulnerable populations and to let individuals know that his executive orders are oftentimes illegal. They're arbitrary. They're capricious. They constitute overreach.
And they're seeking basically to concentrate the power of the executive in the hands of one very, very, very dangerous man.
Yeah, so, you know, I can't be paralyzed by fear. I've got a job to do. I took an oath to the Constitution and to the rule of law. I made a commitment to New Yorkers that I would follow the law and I do that each and every day.
And I walk into this great office of the attorney general of the New York State Attorney General's Office, which is staffed by hundreds of attorneys who are dedicated basically to the rule of law. And all that we do is respond to executive order orders which are unlawful, unconstitutional, which do not have the force of law.
And, you know, and we would urge the president of these United States to work with Congress to ensure. That that the laws followed. We've taken action with respect to the dismantling of the Department of Education. We've taken action with regards to tariffs. We've taken action against immigrants.
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