Department of Justice Moves to Dismiss Charges Against NYC Mayor Amid Mass Federal Layoffs
The DOJ filed to dismiss corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams, linking it to recent high-profile resignations amid federal workforce layoffs.
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Critics argue the Trump administration's efforts to dismiss the charges against Adams, a Democrat, is a politically motivated response to his support for the president's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
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The layoffs have shaken both federal employees and the unions that represent them, prompting widespread condemnation and setting the stage for future legal battles.
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The Adams case confirms that as long as Bondi is in office, the rule of law will be subordinate to Trump's personal motivations.
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Homan also told Fox News Digital he’s well aware of the Constitution.
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Let’s focus on every American and New Yorker should have the right to have an opportunity and survive in this city.
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Adams’s statement came in response to a claim made in a resignation letter from Danielle Sassoon, the now former acting U.S. attorney for Manhattan who quit after refusing a request from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to drop the criminal corruption case against Adams.
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This undated image, provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, shows Danielle R. Sassoon, interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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This is the quid pro quo.
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Bove’s memo sparked something of a revolt within the Justice Department.
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The dismissal closed the first criminal case in history against a sitting New York City mayor and set off a flood of resignations among prosecutors who refused to drop the charges.
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There has been a scramble within the DOJ over the past 24 hours to find a prosecutor willing to put their name to a motion that would ask the judge to formally withdraw the case.
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The layoffs are unlikely to yield significant deficit savings.
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This was followed by a resignation letter that sent shockwaves through the legal community: Prosecutor Hagan Scotten, who earned two Bronze medals for his military service and who clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, wrote he does not have negative views about the Trump administration.
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The point here is that the new Trump Justice Department is busting through sanctuary cities and states, left and right.
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Anger, chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs
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If true, the quid pro quo charges suggest the administration is using law enforcement to leverage cooperation with its agenda.
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The point here is that the new Trump Justice department is busting through sanctuary cities and states, left and right.
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This is a stark promise that we will keep you out of jail if you do what we in the administration want.
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Scotten lambasted Bove's reasoning for wanting the case dismissed, taking particular offense at the idea that Adams' case should be dismissed so that the Trump administration could strong-arm him into cooperating with the president's immigration initiatives.
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The kowtowing has only continued.
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Like many others looking on, McCarthy has been stunned that the same administration that had decried the “weaponization” of the Justice Department is now, in his view, doing just that.
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Establishing an "obstacle" to the enforcement of federal immigration law was "the entire point of the Green Light Law," according to the U.S. attorneys arguing this case.
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That means the Adams legal saga is still far from over.
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Adams' promise Thursday to sign an executive order that would permit federal authorities to enter Rikers came just hours after the stunning resignations of six top Department of Justice prosecutors.
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Adams initially said he wanted to loosen sanctuary laws to allow the NYPD to cooperate with ICE on civil enforcement, but later walked back the remarks.
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But several Department of Justice employees, including the top prosecutor in Manhattan, Danielle Sassoon, viewed the order to drop the case as politically motivated interference in the independent judicial system.
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Adams’s and Bove’s actions — including promises to help the administration while asking for the case’s dismissal — were troubling, according to Sassoon’s resignation letter.
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The layoffs are part of Mr. Trump’s full-scale assault on the federal bureaucracy.
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Adams was indicted last September on bribery charges and pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges, which included accepting overseas travel paid for by wealthy Turkish nationals.
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Summary
The Department of Justice has requested a federal court to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams after several prosecutors resigned in protest. This comes as the Trump administration enacts significant layoffs of over 200,000 probationary federal employees, impacting various agencies including the CDC and the U.S. Forest Service. Critics of the layoffs argue they threaten essential services and are poorly executed, coinciding with a federal judge's ruling to implement a resignation program. The layoffs reflect broader efforts to cut federal spending and reduce agency redundancy.
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