Why is crime up again? Why is political corruption out of control? Let’s ask New York Attorney General Letitia James.

“We have to stop believing or following the rules. Break the rules. Stop coloring inside the lines.”

James, who is the state’s highest prosecutor, is talking about political rules, though considering her campaign of lawfare against President Trump and conservatives, breaking political rules clearly also means breaking legal ones.

The quote comes from an article in the extremist leftist Nation magazine during which James paints herself as an eager ally of the Left.

James believes that the Democratic leadership “needs to bring in more young people. They need to take their cues from AOC and from Jasmine Crockett and Maxwell Frost and Greg Cesar. They need to be on the ground. They need to do things that are different. Republicans are just outperforming us each and every time. We have to stop believing or following the rules. Break the rules. Stop coloring inside the lines.”

Though her preferred candidate in the New York mayoral primary, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, didn’t win, James quickly embraced Mamdani after his victory. She went to his party on election night and praised the youthful, multiracial movement that propelled his campaign. “Tonight represents a resounding win,” James told the crowd.

By endorsing Mamdani even as Schumer and Jeffries kept quiet, and by marching joyfully with him in June’s New York Pride parade, James solidified her standing with the city’s progressive movement.

In short, she’s happy to collaborate with the key figures in the pro-crime movement, while doing next to nothing to stop crime, and instead wielding the powers of her office to punish her political opponents.