Eric Adams Watch

Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on corruption charges.

For fake reasons, the Trump Administration was going to hold up the prosecution until after the election. Some conservative leaning prosecutors very publicly cried foul. It was a pressure campaign to coerce Adams to support Trump’s policies as shown by the Border Czar openly saying so in a joint television appearance.

Judge Dale Ho (aka the “good Judge Ho”) could not force the Trump Administration to prosecution. He did have the power to drop the prosecution with prejudice to deter future wrongdoing. Judge Ho spelled out why he did so in a long opinion.

The best of the bad options. The Trump Administration still has the power to bring new charges. OTOH, now the Adams does not even have the support warranting involvement in the Democratic Primary, hopefully long term that won’t matter.

If they want to prosecute (there are other possible charges) that’s fine. The problem is using the threat as a sword of Damocles to coerce a public official to support federal (immigration) policies. That has ethical problems as well as raised both due process and federalism problems.

For now, we are still stuck with Andrew Cuomo as an option in the Democratic Primary. One asshole down …