New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) signaled Thursday that she intends to challenge the appointment of a prosecutor handpicked by President Trump to seek charges against his foes in a bid to throw out her mortgage fraud case.

In a two-page court filing, James’s attorneys notified the federal judge overseeing the case that they plan to formally ask him to dismiss the charges Friday on the basis that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully installed.

“In the interest of efficiency and to avoid any unnecessary delay, particularly if this Court must designate this motion to an out-of-district judge, Attorney General James files the instant Notice to formally alert the Court,” the filing reads.

James’s motion comes after another Trump adversary, former FBI Director James Comey, moved to have his charges dismissed over Halligan’s appointment earlier this week.

Comey’s bid to dismiss his case was set Thursday for Nov. 13 oral arguments before U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie, an appointee of former President Clinton who sits on a federal court in South Carolina.

Currie was selected to hear the motion by the appellate court that oversees both her court and the Eastern District of Virginia, where James and Comey are........

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