Bove accepted Sassoon’s resignation in a remarkable 8-page letter, in which he blasted her handling of the case and decision to disobey his order. He told her the prosecutors who had worked on the case against Adams were being placed on administrative leave & would be investigated by the AG and OPR.
Read Sassoon's letter to Bondi. Footnote 1 will be of interest to people who have been following the Eric Adams case.
Updated again with more details
The resignations represent the most high-profile public resistance so far to President Trump’s tightening control over the Justice Department. They were a stunning repudiation of the administration’s attempt to force the dismissal of the charges against Mr. Adams.
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
This footnote always felt like Bove knew a shitstorm was coming and he was trying to get ahead of it.
Generally speaking, it's best not to go to war with SDNY.
SDNY US attorney Danielle Sassoon resigns in protest over Trump’s corrupt deal with Mayor Adams
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Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor. (There are a lot of them.) voxdotcom.visitlink.me/VETn5u
The owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger has been placed on China’s “unreliable entities” list, which could force it to shut down stores, cease manufacturing and send its employees home.
Dyer: The media and most of their customers are ignoring this terrifying warming trend completely because the Tangerine Toddler is having a tantrum.
You might have a credit card’s worth of microplastics in your brain — and dementia patients may have more, new study suggests.
The American researchers believe they’re the first to find shards of plastic in the human brain, after similar findings in animal models.
Local bookstores have become tiny beacons of light, drawing Angelenos seeking solace and consolation following the L.A. fires.
When Donald Trump formally announced a newly created Department of Government Efficiency in December, @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-Calif.) argued in a post on X that Democrats should “work with” Musk.
Not anymore. “There’s no room for collaboration on an unconstitutional effort," he says.
Exclusive: The White House is preparing an executive order to fire thousands of workers from the Department of Health and Human Services
Breaking news: A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the Trump administration’s buyout program’s deadline, which had been set for 11:59 p.m. Thursday, and set a new hearing for Monday.
A federal judge just temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s exit plan for government employees until Monday.
New: A federal judge has temporarily delayed the Feb. 6 deadline for millions of federal workers to decide whether to accept the Trump administration offer to resign with the promise of months of full pay
Elon Musk’s staffers have gained access to the computer systems at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), claiming to use that access to search for programs and staff linked to diversity policies.
We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.
From Oct 2022 fyi. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"
