In a hearing originally slated for Monday, the National Rifle Association planned wants to fend off New York Attorney General
Letitia James’s lawsuit seeking the powerful gun group’s dissolution. The NRA will now wait until Jan. 21 to ask a judge in Manhattan to dismiss, pause, or relocate the lawsuit in an effort to get rid of it, delay it, or find it a friendlier jury.
This past August, James sued the NRA in a lawsuit accusing the leadership of looting the nonprofit that has operated in New York since 1871.
“The NRA’s influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets,” James said in a statement on Aug. 6. “The NRA is fraught with fraud and abuse, which is why, today, we seek to dissolve the NRA, because no organization is above the law.”