New York Attorney General Letitia James plans to argue in court that Donald Trump unlawfully appointed the prosecutor who obtained her indictment.

James’ lawyers, in a court filing Thursday obtained by Reuters, told the judge in the case the charges against her should be dropped due to the circumstances of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as U.S. Attorney in Eastern Virginia.

James, who is charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a bank over a mortgage on a second property of hers in Norfolk, Virginia, is scheduled to be arraigned there on Friday. She has denied wrongdoing.

Donald Trump appointed Halligan, a 36-year-old former personal attorney of his and Miss Colorado beauty pageant contestant, to her role after federal prosecutors felt investigat

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