New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- A grand jury on Thursday (December 11) declined for the second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking another major setback for the Justice Department's push to prosecute President Donald Trump's most prominent political adversaries.

The repeated refusals represent a striking rebuke of prosecutors' attempts to revive a criminal case Trump had publicly urged them to pursue.

The initial indictments against James and former FBI Director James Comey were dismissed in November after a judge ruled that Lindsey Halligan - the former Trump lawyer installed as US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia - was unlawfully appointed. The cases were dismissed without prejudice, allowin...