Amazon on Friday sued New York’s attorney general, alleging her probe of its treatment of warehouse workers is illegal. “The OAG has now threatened to sue Amazon if it does not immediately agree to a list of demands, many of which have no connection to health and safety and have no factual or legal basis,” Amazon said in the filing, referring to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. “The OAG’s exorbitant demands are based on a standard for workplace health and safety far more stringent than the standard adopted by the OAG when defending, in other litigation, the New York State Courts’ reasonable but more limited safety response to COVID-19 in the face of threats greater than those present in Amazon’s private facilities,” it added. The Seattle-based company is asking a judge to declare James, a Democrat, lacks authority to regulate how Amazon treats employees who protest …