NYT :

New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, is set to appear in federal court in Norfolk, Va., on Friday morning for an arraignment where she is expected to plead not guilty to charges lodged by the Trump administration that she misled a bank to get more favorable mortgage terms.

The hearing for Ms. James, her first court appearance since being indicted this month, is a routine opening procedure in a prosecution that is anything but. How her case, which was pursued at President Trump’s demand over the objections of career prosecutors, plays out could hold signals for the president’s wider efforts to seek retribution against his perceived enemies….

Ms. James stands accused of lying about her purpose in buying a house in Virginia in 2020. Prosecutors say that while she said the

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