(NewsNation) — New York State Attorney General Letitia James said her office is “prepared to fight back once again” when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.
“If possible, we will work with the administration but will not compromise values, integrity and principles,” James said in a statement delivered to reporters Wednesday.
“We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result,” James said, adding that “we are prepared to fight back once again.”
James also congratulated Trump on his victory, but did not address what her office may do about the sentencing of Trump on Nov. 26 for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
While Trump could pardon himself for the federal crimes of which he’s accused, he has no power to pardon himself on the conviction in New York nor the 2020-related crimes he faces in Georgia.
In September, a federal judge swiftly rejected Trump’s request to move the case to federal court so that he could seek to have his conviction overturned in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the defense failed to meet the high burden of proof for changing jurisdiction and that Trump’s conviction for falsifying business records involved his personal life, not official actions that the Supreme Court ruled are immune from prosecution.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
