Trump Lawyers Press James for Evidence Details in $450M Civil Case

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 4

A Thursday filing in New York Supreme Court says Donald Trump’s lawyers want Attorney General Letitia James to spell out how her office preserved evidence in the civil fraud case now under reconsideration.
The demand centers on whether the office holds undisclosed communications with former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, after a January 2026 Substack post in which Cohen said he felt pressured to support cases against Trump.
A judge denied broader additional discovery but ordered James’s office to describe its preservation process; Trump’s team says the response relied only on generic "standard litigation hold procedures" and did not confirm what materials exist.
James’s office says it has fully complied and objects to any further "extrajudicial discovery" as Trump separately argues the case should be thrown out and James seeks to restore vacated monetary penalties.