Tish James confronted on camera over Trump's accusation of bias in Cornell rape case

New York Attorney General Letitia James is promising a fair process as she takes on the prosecution of seven people accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a Cornell University fraternity party, even as doubts about her neutrality keep growing. She was brought in after a lawsuit named Cornell, the Chi Phi fraternity and others, a case that has focused national attention on how the school deals with campus sexual assault. James has told a reporter that facts and evidence, not politics, will steer her work, according to Fox News.

President Donald Trump, who has long clashed with James, weighed in after Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked about Governor Kathy Hochul's decision to name her special prosecutor. Trump called James corrupt and said whoever she investigates would not get a fair shake.

Lawyers for two defendants want her off the matter. Andrew Miltenberg, counsel for Gillio Lopes, and Teny Geragos, who acts for Winston Lee, cite a September 28 post on X in which James expressed support for the accuser, identified in filings as Jane Doe. Geragos argued in a filing that the post shows James is "unquestionably biased."

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