New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Senior federal prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi, who resisted President Donald Trump's push to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, was fired. Yusi, who led major criminal cases in the Norfolk office of the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, was dismissed on Friday evening along with her deputy, Kristin Bird. The decision came after Yusi reportedly pushed back against Trump's calls to indict James, telling colleagues there was no probable cause to support the charges.

Yusi's dismissal marks a sudden end to her distinguished 18-year career at the Justice Department. A University of Virginia alumna with a law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law, Yusi began...