According to Jonathan Turley, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is "losing" her war against former President Donald Trump.

Turley, a lawyer, law professor, and constitutional scholar, made the claim on Saturday in a piece that he published with The Hill.

The article is titled, Letitia James may be winning lawfare but losing the war. 

This comes after the latest developments in the case that James has brought against Trump.

The latest

This past week, New York courts heard Trump's appeal in the matter, and their questioning of the lawyers suggested to many that the judges were leaning toward siding with Trump.

This, according to Newsweek, is all taking place in the civil fraud case that James has brought against Trump. This is the case in which James alleges that Trump undervalued his assets on bank loan documents.

Newsweek reports:

Trump, the GOP's presidential nominee, has decried the lawsuit and his nearly half a billion in financial penalties as a form of "election interference." His lawyers appealed the ruling to New York's intermediate appellate court, arguing in part that the size of the penalties was "draconian" and that some of the allegations brought against Trump were outside the state's statute of limitation, meaning they should have never been brought to trial.

It was on Thursday that the appellate court heard the case.

Newsweek continues:

[A] five-judge panel heard arguments from both sides of the case on Thursday where a pair of judges appeared to hint at being receptive to some of Trump's arguments, including that the entities Trump is accused of defrauding did not lose money or were otherwise harmed by his actions.

Turley's view

Turley, in his piece, highlights how James has been one of the leading Democratic prosecutors to weaponize the legal system against Trump. Then, he explains how James is "losing the war."

Regarding the above case, Turley writes:

In appellate arguments this week, James’s office faced openly skeptical justices who raised the very arguments that some of us have made for years about the ludicrous fine imposed by Judge Arthur Engoron.

James has not only weaponized the law against Trump, however. She has also weaponized it against other political opponents. According to Turley, she is also struggling there.

He writes:

In the same week, James faced a stinging defeat in another popular cause. James had targeted pro-life organizations for spreading supposed “disinformation” in not just opposing the use of mifepristone (the abortion pill used in the majority of abortions in the United States), but in advocating the use of reversal procedures if mothers change their minds before taking the second drug in the treatment regimen . . . Judge John Sinatra Jr. blocked James‘s crackdown as a denial of free speech.

Turley concludes by suggesting that many judges may have had enough of James' lawfare tactics and may help to shut such tactics down. We'll have to see if this does indeed turn out to be true.