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While Ms. James’s public statements could reflect political or personal animus toward Mr. Trump, the judge said, her comments were not enough to prove that the attorney general had infringed upon Mr. Trump’s rights.

Judge Sannes also found “no evidence that the subpoena enforcement proceeding has been conducted in such a way as to constitute harassment.”

Mr. Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has blasted Ms. James, calling her investigation “a witch hunt.”

Her investigation is focused on his annual financial statements, which contain estimated values of his golf courses, hotels and other properties. Ms. James is scrutinizing whether Mr. Trump and his company falsely — and fraudulently — inflated those values to secure loans and other financial benefits.

In a court filing this year, Ms. James revealed that Mr. Trump’s longtime accounting firm had cut ties with him and essentially retracted nearly a decade’s worth of the financial statements.

She also argued, in a separate filing, that the Trump Organization had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices. But her lawyers said that they needed to collect additional records and testimony, from Mr. Trump in particular, before they could decide whether to file a lawsuit.

Last month, a state judge in Manhattan, Arthur F. Engoron, held Mr. Trump in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with Ms. James’s subpoena seeking his personal records. (The judge recently released the contempt order, after Mr. Trump paid a $110,000 fine and filed additional documents.)