Calls for are rising for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to take away New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams from workplace after allegedly collaborating in a “quid pro quo” with President Donald Trump to squash his bribery case in alternate for immigration enforcement within the metropolis.
Hochul is the one individual with the authority to take away Adams from workplace, as granted to her by New York’s structure and New York Metropolis’s Constitution.
“Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by the Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go,” Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote on Bluesky Thursday
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Adams have to be eliminated. The town can’t maintain being ruled for almost a yr by a Mayor who’s being coerced by Trump admin so as to escape costs.
This corruption poses an actual menace to the individuals of town. He ought to have resigned some time in the past, however is not going to. So it’s time for him to go.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) 2025-02-13T23:40:43.777Z
“The allegations are extremely concerning and serious, but I cannot, as the Governor of this state, have a knee jerk, politically motivated reaction like a lot of other people are saying right now,” she informed host Rachel Maddow. “I have to do what’s smart, what’s right, and I’m consulting with other leaders in government at this time. You got to have one sane person in this state who can cut through all the crap and say, ‘What does my responsibility guide me to do?’”
This comes after the Division of Justice ordered federal prosecutors to drop bribery costs in opposition to Adams on Monday.
And on Thursday, Interim U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon resigned from her place as a refusal to log off on dismissing the case in opposition to Adams, which she thought of to be “what amounted to a quid pro quo” between Adams and the appearing U.S. Deputy Lawyer Normal Emil Bove.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams
“Dismissing the case will amplify, rather than abate, concerns about weaponization of the Department,” she wrote in an eight-page resignation letter to U.S. Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi. “Despite Mr. Bove’s observation that the directive to dismiss the case has been reached without assessing the strength of the evidence against Adams.”
Former FBI Normal Counsel Andrew Weissmann in contrast Sassoon’s departure to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday night massacre,” when Particular Prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired for engaged on the case in opposition to the president in 1973.
“I remain baffled by the rushed and superficial process by which this decision was reached, in seeming collaboration with Adams’s counsel and without my direct input on the ultimate stated rationales for dismissal,” Sassoon stated.
Adams, who has just lately gotten cozy with Trump and “border czar” Tim Homan, additionally appears to have the delusion that, when he leaves workplace as a Democrat—voluntarily or not—he’ll simply must run as a Republican to be reinstated as mayor of New York Metropolis.
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