Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New York State attorney general, Letitia James, seeking to halt her long-running civil inquiry into his business practices and to bar her from participating in a separate criminal investigation.

The suit, filed in federal court in Albany by Mr. Trump and his family real estate business, argued that Ms. James’s involvement in both inquiries was entirely politically motivated, a tack that Mr. Trump has deployed in the past when faced with scrutiny by law enforcement and others.

(I think the evidence of his overvaluing properties for bank loans and undervaluing the same properties for taxes is pretty clear. If Trump did not want the scrutiny that politicians get, then he should have stayed out of politics.)