Outside lawyer appointed to present arguments against prosecutors seeking to drop case against New York mayorA New York judge on Friday said he would not immediately dismiss Eric Adams’s corruption case, but ordered the Democratic New York City mayor’s trial delayed indefinitely after the justice department asked for the charges to be dismissed.In a written ruling, the US district judge Dale Ho in Manhattan said he would appoint an outside lawyer, Paul Clement of the law firm Clement & Murphy PLLC, to present arguments against the federal prosecutors’ bid to dismiss, in order to help the judge make his decision. Continue reading...

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Eric Adams, mayor of the US’s largest city, is caught up in a swirl of indictments, immigrants, Rikers and Donald TrumpThis Valentine’s Day, a new political power couple said their vows on the plush white couches of Fox & Friends in midtown Manhattan: Donald Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, and the New York City mayor, Eric Adams.The pair appeared on the conservative TV show to discuss an agreement they had reached the day before. Their deal reversed longstanding New York City policy by letting federal immigration agents back onto Rikers Island, the city’s jail complex that largely holds people who have been charged but not yet convicted of crimes. The surprise agreement came as the newly installed leaders of Trump’s Department of Justice were making an extraordinary push to dismiss criminal corruption charges that the agency had been pursuing against Adams.Weeks after the election, the mayor, who had once declared that the city would ‘ALWAYS stand up to’ Trump and that immigra...

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From the Trump administration’s latest moves to Donald Trump’s latest feuds – key US politics stories from Wednesday at a glanceThe Guardian is tracking Donald Trump and his administration’s latest moves with several stories, features and analyses each day. Here are some of the biggest stories in US politics that happened Wednesday, 19 February.***Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative, a global finance conference in Miami organized by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Trump said the United States is “back and open for business” and that the “dark days of high taxes, crushing regulations, rampant inflation, flagrant corruption, government weaponization and total incompetence will be gone for ever.”Illinois governor JB Pritzker delivered a searing state-of-the-state address, likening Trump’s stunning power grabs to the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany.In a blistering statement after asking a federal judge to dismiss the corruption case against New York mayor Eric Adams, the ...

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Federal judge did not rule on the motion to dismiss the charges against Eric Adams

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A federal judge did not rule on the move to dismiss the charges

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Dismissal of case against Eric Adams reflects new directive for prosecutors to toe White House’s policiesEmil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, moving with ruthless efficiency last week to dismiss the corruption case against New York mayor Eric Adams appeared to reflect the new praxis at the justice department where Trump’s political agenda will guide prosecutorial decisions.The department filed the motion to dismiss on Friday with the signatures of Bove and two trial attorneys – the public integrity section’s senior litigation counsel Edward Sullivan and the acting head of the criminal division Antoinette Bacon – that cemented the decision. Continue reading...

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Dismissal of case against Eric Adams reflects new directive for prosecutors to toe line on White House’s policiesEmil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, moving with ruthless efficiency last week to dismiss the corruption case against the New York mayor, Eric Adams, appeared to reflect the new praxis at the justice department where Trump’s political agenda will guide prosecutorial decisions.The department filed the motion to dismiss on Friday with the signatures of Bove and two trial attorneys – the public integrity section’s senior litigation counsel Edward Sullivan and the acting head of the criminal division Antoinette Bacon – that cemented the decision. Continue reading...

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Justice Department lawyers and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are set to face a federal judge who is signaling that he's unlikely to rubber stamp their request to drop corruption charges weeks before an April trial

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A federal judge has scheduled a Wednesday hearing in the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, ordering lawyers to address the reasons why the Justice Department asked to dismiss corruption charges and the “scope and effect” of the mayor's consent

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Adams is facing calls from local and state lawmakers to resign

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Departures follow justice department shelving charges widely seen as reward for Eric Adams helping Trump administrationFour deputies to New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, resigned on Monday as the growing chaos following a justice department request to drop corruption charges against him, widely seen as a reward for his help with Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, engulfs his three-year-old administration.According to reports, four of Adams’ deputies – first deputy mayor Maria Torres Springer, deputy mayor for operations Meera Joshi, deputy mayor for health and human services Anne Williams-Isom, and deputy mayor for public safety Chauncey Parker – said they were stepping down. Continue reading...

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