“I will be filing suit against the State of New York for their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump,” Attorney General Andrew Bailey wrote in a June 20 post on X. “It’s time to restore the rule of law,” he added.Missouri’s Attorney General says he is suing the State of New York over its alleged attack on America through what he argues is the state’s vindictive prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
🚨BREAKING: I will be filing suit against the State of New York for their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump.
It’s time to restore the rule of law.
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) June 21, 2024
Bailey’s lawsuit is the latest in a series of actions by public officials seeking to address apparent impropriety in the targeting of Trump for criminal prosecution.
This spring, the House Judiciary Committee called New York’s prosecution of Trump “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority” and a “politicized prosecution.”
Bailey suggested in a separate post that New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump in a bid to negatively impact his odds of re-election in the 2024 election.
“We have to fight back against a rogue prosecutor who is trying to take a presidential candidate off the campaign trail. It sabotages Missourians’ right to a free and fair election,” Bailey wrote. “Stay tuned.”
Because the legal action involves one state versus another, the Constitution requires the case to go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Radical progressives in New York are trying to rig the 2024 election. We have to stand up and fight back," Bailey told Fox News Digital.
Suspicions about Bragg’s alleged politicized targeting of Trump circulated following vows to investigate the former president while Bragg was still campaigning, and just after he was sworn in as New York’s top attorney in 2022.
"During that campaign, Bragg promised ‘if elected, [he] would go after Trump.’ Once he won election, he pledged ‘to personally focus on the high-profile probe into former President Donald Trump’s business practices,’" Bailey told Fox News.
He stated that Bragg’s decision to bring the prosecution “despite its transparent weakness has nonetheless had the effect of keeping former President Trump off the campaign trail, which President Biden has bragged about."
Bailey added, “Given the timing (Bragg charged Trump only after Trump declared his candidacy for President), the transparent weakness of the charges, and the effect the charges have in keeping Trump off the campaign trail, there is substantial reason to suspect the Biden administration has coordinated with Bragg and others to bring prosecutions against Trump.”
