New York Attorney General Letitia James vowed to appeal a court ruling that vacated President Donald Trump’s $527 million fraud penalty on Thursday.

James issued a statement shortly after the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department of the New York State Supreme Court, tossed the civil penalty against the president, calling it “excessive.”

The court, which was split on the merits of the lawsuit and the lower court’s fraud finding, dismissed the penalty Judge Arthur Engoron imposed in its entirety while also leaving a pathway for further appeals to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.

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