“Stand up to an administration which is too male, too pale, and too stale,” candidate Letitia James told supporters in 2018 when she ran for New York state attorney general. “Too male, too pale, too stale!” she chanted as the crowd roared. “Too male, too pale, too stale!”
Imagine if a white Republican man were on the stump: “Stand up to an administration that is too fem, too tan, and too woke,” he might say, perhaps while running against James — a woman, black, and far-left Democrat.
That speech would doom his campaign as it vanished beneath an avalanche of headlines and X posts calling him sexist and racist. He probably would apologize and then crawl into a snow drift until the spring thaw.
But James’ sexist, racist remarks — shouted into a microphone, not whispered into a martini glass — caused her no political damage. Indeed, she was elected attorney general of the Empire State.
James’ anti-white bigotry detonates a core tenet of Critical Race Theory, namely, that blacks are incapable of racism because they lack power over omnipotent whites. This self-enfeebling argument collapses in the face of James’ enormous police power, vast government resources, and ability to impoverish and imprison people she hates, not least a former president of the United States.
James labors mightily to “get Trump,” which she promised to do, in a preemptive injustice that should get her disbarred. James’ political biases are on full display as she licks her chops and lusts after the real estate and financial holdings of Donald J. Trump. These could fall into her hands if Trump cannot post a $175 million bond by April 4. (An appeals court discounted that figure 61.4 percent on Monday from an initial $454 million.)
That $175 million would let Trump appeal Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s decision that Trump is guilty of defrauding his banks — even though he repaid all of his loans, with interest, and sometimes ahead of schedule. None of his lenders claims to have been swindled. Indeed, Deutsche Bank considered Trump such a profitable client that it wanted to lend him even more money.
As Trump slips through James’ slithery tentacles, he should file an emergency motion in federal court today and request a preliminary injunction to halt all of James’ efforts to snatch his property, if not quash her entire case. Trump’s attorneys should invoke the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and justifiably accuse James of discriminating against him on the basis of sex and race.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed this landmark legislation to shield Americans from hateful state laws and bigoted state officials. The act was designed to guard citizens from prejudiced mayors, governors, and — yes — attorneys general who would deploy local and state laws to deny them their rights.
In Title VI, 42 U.S. Code § 2000d, the landmark law states: “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” (emphases added).
According to § 2000d-4a, “the term ‘program or activity’ and the term ‘program’ mean all of the operations of … a department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or of a local government.”
New York state’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is an “instrumentality of a State.”
As for “receiving Federal financial assistance,” the OAG has collected at least $234,723,442 since 2019, all on James’ watch. This sum was from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Medicaid Fraud Control Units. These funds were dedicated “[t]o investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud as well as patient abuse or neglect in health facilities and board and care facilities and of Medicaid beneficiaries in non-institutional or other settings.”
“Engaging in discrimination based on sex and race should play no part in any prosecutor’s office or taxpayer funding from any level, including the nearly quarter-billion federal dollars that Attorney General James’ office has enjoyed for the last five years,” said Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of OpentheBooks.com, which identified these subsidies. “James might respond that this money was earmarked to fight Medicare-related crimes. Never mind. Money is fungible, and $234 million flowed into her office, thanks to federal taxpayers.”
James will have a much tougher time hiding from the largesse that the U.S. Department of Justice paid her office for clearly non-medical matters. The DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs furnished the New York State Division of Criminal Justice $77,055,947 in fiscal years 2021, ’22, and ’23. This included funds for substance abuse treatment, forensic science improvement, statistical analysis, and more.
The Trump-hating Letitia James runs the OAG, which has received at least $311,779,389 in federal taxpayer funds, according to these two sources alone. These basic facts throw the Civil Rights Act of 1964 like a net over James and her state agency.
What the hell does Trump have to lose? He immediately should file a federal complaint and demand justice under America’s keystone civil-rights law. To see a white male multi-billionaire sue a black female attorney general to secure his civil rights would be the ultimate man-bites-dog story. For this extraordinary spectacle, America owes a hearty thank you to New York state’s leading despot, Attorney General Letitia James.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
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