State Attorney General Letitia James (D-NY) called on Monday for the mortgage fraud charges against her to be dropped, arguing in a 22-page filing that President Donald Trump’s administration had engaged in “outrageous government conduct” in bringing the case in the first place.

Attorneys representing James argued in the filing that the charges themselves were “patently unconstitutional,” according to a CBS News report. They claimed that several officials within the Trump administration had embarked upon “months of unethical behavior” culminating in the allegation that she’d bought property in the state of Virginia, calling it a “second home” to secure a lower interest rate but instead turning it out as a rental property.

“If this brazen, continuous disregard for the law and the Constitution is not outrageous government conduct, nothing is,” the attorneys claimed, naming Fair Housing Finance Authority (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte, top Justice Department official Ed Martin, and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in the filing.

Pulte was the one who sparked the investigation into the New York Attorney General — who had herself run on a platform of “getting Trump” and then willed a case into reality in her attempt to follow through. Pulte referred James for prosecution, but her attorneys claimed that he had “transformed the little-known agency into a weapon to be brandished against President Trump’s political enemies.”

They also attacked the Justice Department’s special attorney for mortgage fraud, Ed Martin – who called for James to resign shortly after the charges were filed — arguing that he “has engaged in a well-documented series of actions that cannot be described as anything but outrageous.”

“The letter was not an attempt to investigate the facts, nor did it hide his plain intention to pressure the sitting Attorney General of New York to resign from office or face criminal prosecution,” the lawyers said, also asserting that it represented a violation of “various codes of professional responsibility and ethics,” among other things.

They were equally displeased with Halligan, and claimed that the case against James amounted to “vindictive prosecution.”

The attorneys concluded by claiming that the Trump administration was out to “punish AG James for daring to take a stand against the President—both in this Court and by making the investigation of her so public and intrusive that the pre-trial process itself serves as punishment.”

Despite legacy media claims, illegal immigrants do indeed receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, commonly known as food stamps.

In fact, it’s estimated that millions of illegal immigrants are collecting food stamps.

Though SNAP data is hard to come by, seemingly intentionally so, a 2024 Survey of Income and Program Participation that’s been analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) gives us some insight.

CIS estimates that up to 4.5 million illegals are using SNAP, even though SNAP is restricted to applicants who have legal status.

Notably, only the applicant, in theory, must have legal status in the U.S. Members of households who indirectly benefit from food stamps do not have to disclose legal status.

Moreover, illegal immigrants are already permitted to use WIC, which is another welfare food program, though it’s more restrictive than SNAP.

CIS also found that 47% of all noncitizen households — which includes noncitizens with legal status — receive taxpayer-funded food assistance, be it WIC or SNAP, or both.

In another eye-popping statistic, 59.4% of illegal immigrant households use at least one major welfare program, CIS estimates.

Much attention has been paid to the SNAP program since the recent Democrat-backed government shutdown, which is finally over. The program is massive and apparently had no real oversight before the Trump administration stepped in.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has openly called the program “extremely corrupt” and is undertaking a complete overhaul to root out fraud and abuse. Most notably, she’s having everyone on SNAP reapply for their benefits, which could potentially save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Currently, there are about 43 million people in the SNAP program, which is about 12% of the population. It costs taxpayers around $100 billion to fund annually.

Rollins said that when she became secretary, she realized SNAP was basically running on autopilot while experiencing this massive growth. She cited 40% growth during the COVID era.

After she was sworn in, Rollins asked every state to share their SNAP data to track down the fraud, but only 29 states complied, mostly red states. She said, so far, they’ve identified 186,000 deceased people receiving SNAP checks, 500,000 people getting two times the benefits they are supposed to, and individuals receiving benefits in multiple states.

The Trump administration is currently suing the remaining states, including New York and California, for their SNAP data. Rollins has suggested that the fraud and abuse exposed there will be even worse.

Rollins and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are also working together to push states to limit food and drink choices available for SNAP. Soda is one of the most commonly purchased items with food stamps, and nearly 25% of SNAP dollars go to soda and candy, and other junk food. So far, 11 states have asked for waivers to exclude soda and candy from SNAP – all red states except for Colorado.