Trump DOJ stuns as judge told it will not obey court order in high‑stakes case

The Justice Department took the extremely rare step on Tuesday of notifying a federal judge it would disregard a court order.

Specifically, the judge presiding over the government’s criminal bank fraud case against New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered federal prosecutors to provide discovery on James’ motion to dismiss the case on vindictive prosecution grounds.

But in a brief filing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Keller told the court that wouldn’t be happening.