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US Lawyer Danielle Sassoon launched a letter that she wrote to AG Pam Bondi explaining why she couldn’t perform the order of AG Pam Bondi to drop the case in opposition to Mayor Eric Adams.
This was the a part of the letter that caught my consideration:
The rationale given by Mr. Bove—an alternate between a felony defendant and the Division of Justice akin to the Bout alternate with Russia— is, as defined above, a discount {that a} prosecutor shouldn’t make. Furthermore, dismissing with out prejudice and with the categorical choice of once more indicting Adams sooner or later creates apparent moral issues, by implicitly threatening future prosecution if Adams’s cooperation with implementing the immigration legal guidelines proves unsatisfactory to the Division.
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I stay baffled by the rushed and superficial course of by which this determination was reached, in seeming collaboration with Adams’s counsel and with out my direct enter on the final word acknowledged rationales for dismissal. Mr. Bove admonished me to be aware of my obligation to zealously defend the pursuits of the USA and to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Administration.
I hope you share my view that soliciting and contemplating the issues of the U.S. Lawyer overseeing the case serves quite than hinders that aim, and that we will discover time to satisfy. Within the occasion you might be unwilling to satisfy or rethink the directive in gentle of the issues raised by Mr. Bove’s memo, I’m ready to supply my resignation. It has been, and continues to be, my honor to function a prosecutor within the Southern District of New York.
Trump tried to spin this to reporters because the US Lawyer being fired, however she stop as a result of Trump’s AG, probably at Trump’s route, went behind her again and collaborated with Eric Adams’s lawyer on a deal to drop the costs.
Observers have lengthy been involved that Trump would drop the costs in alternate for Adams agreeing to provide the administration a free hand on immigration raids within the metropolis.
Trump is exhibiting the nation what a weaponized and politicized DOJ appears like, and the conduct is so excessive and out of doors the norm that it’s inflicting folks inside the division to resign and go away.
What do you concentrate on Trump dropping the costs in opposition to Adams? Share your ideas within the feedback under.
