Good evening. Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. We're tracking this breaking news.

The Trump Justice Department has now secured a new indictment of New York Attorney General Lettisha James,

the top law enforcement official in New York State. Trump had personally marked her as a target or

political enemy for this very indictment, which is now reality. She previously took

his company to court in a civil case, a type of enforcement that doesn't carry a possible

criminal charge or jail time. And in that civil case, it was about Trump's business practices,

one of the things that earned his ire. The new James indictment comes, of course, right after the DOJ's controversial indictment

of Trump critic James Comey.

Both cases do begin with the legally uphill battle of the president's call for these very

charges.

That could even doom them if judges find it to be in the legal selective prosecution.

And another unusual twist, both are being brought in Virginia by the exact same

newly installed Trump loyalist attorney Lindsay Halligan.

She replaced the Trump prosecutor there who was not bringing either of these cases,

a very noticeable gap, and we'll get into that tonight.

She could not get any other lawyer

to join her unusual indictment against Comey, and today she was back presenting this case to the

grand jury alone again. Now, this new case is unusual. It effectively tries to drum up a mortgage fraud

case against James for one of her homes.

Legal experts also note that like Comey, the case is saddled with this unusual cloud from Trump's incriminating call

to indict these very people he views as foes. We've highlighted the names, as you can now see,

two of the three

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