The Department of Justice has ordered the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams dismissed without prejudice. This means that the case may be brought back later.
The new DOJ under President Trump is doing this to protect Mayor Adams, a Democrat, and his ability to campaign for re-election this November. The Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove writes that “the timing of the charges and more recent public actions by the former U.S. Attorney responsible for initiating the case have threatened the integrity of the proceedings” He continues that “it cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the prior Administration’s immigration policies before the charges were filed, and the former U.S. Attorney’s public actions created appearances of impropriety.”
The directive means that the case can be brought back up after the election. Here we have an acting AG that is concerned about a precedence of candidates being tried for cases as a smear campaign, even one of the opposing party of his boss. That’s really something.
The AG is careful to state that he is not assessed “the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based.” We did that and the case seemed rather thin. The government evidence has his staff offering to pay full price for his travel while being offered discounts. Adams has explained plainly that he was prosecuted by the Biden Justice Department and it is hard to see it any other way.
