Justice Department prosecutors have to please the president, but grand juries don't. A second panel assembled to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James has refused to do so, after last week's failed effort.

"For the second time in seven days, the Department of Justice has failed in its clear attempt to fulfill President Trump's political vendetta against Attorney General James," James' attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement shared with Axios.

"Career prosecutors who knew better refused to bring it, and now two different grand juries in two different cities have refused to allow these baseless charges to be brought," he said. "Any further attempt to revive these discredited charges would be a mockery of our system of justice."

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