Letitia James Hit With Calls For Resignation

The Department of Justice’s political weaponization czar has sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James, urging her to step down from her post immediately over a mortgage fraud investigation. Ed Martin, the director of the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, said that following his advice would be seen as “an act of good faith” from James.

Martin told James’s attorney on Aug. 12 that she would best serve the “good of the state and nation” by resigning, which would then end the probe he started into allegations she committed mortgage fraud. Ironically, that’s the same crime she prosecuted the president for in 2024.

The case involves alleged discrepancies in her Brooklyn townhouse and a home she owns in Virginia, according to Yahoo! News.

“Her resignation from office would give the people of New York and America more peace than proceeding,” Martin wrote in the letter. “I would take this as an act of good faith.”

Last Friday, Martin showed up outside of the attorney general’s Brooklyn townhouse, sporting a trench coat and accompanied by one of his aides and a journalist from the New York Post. Martin didn’t go inside the building, nor did he speak with James.

The writer from the Post saw him engage in a conversation with a neighbor, saying, “I’m just looking at houses, interesting houses. It’s an important house.”

“James’ lawyer Abbe Lowell shot back on Monday, telling Martin in a letter his blunt request for James’ resignation defied Justice Department standards and codes of professional responsibility and legal ethics,” Yahoo said.

The DOJ “has firm policies against using investigations and against using prosecutorial power for achieving political ends,” Lowell went on to write. “This is ever more the case when that demand is made to seek political revenge against a public official in the opposite party.”

“Let me be clear: that will not happen here,” he stated firmly.

Lowell then put Martin on blast for the visit to James’ home, referring to the move as a “truly bizarre made-for-media stunt.” He then added it was “outside of the bounds” of the DOJ’s rules. Lowell also included a picture taken from security camera footage that shows Martin posing for a photograph in front of the townhouse as if to “visit a tourist attraction.”

Both letters are the latest back-and-forth moves made in a battle the Trump administration is fighting against corruption and politicization of the legal system in America.