I don’t think the issue is just dropping the charges. It is the explicit linkage between dropping the charges and Adams’s expected assistance to the Trump administration on immigration enforcement and holding the charges in abeyance as an implicit means of ensuring Adams does Trump’s bidding on immigration and who knows what else.

@elonmusk Well, I’m glad someone is.

@ProfGrewal This absolutely not great (on an extremely long list of not great social media things from current and former officials), but I don’t see how it justifies dismissing the case against Adams.

@jiwallner They are hiding them in the SCIFs.

Sure, there are cases where reasonable people can disagree on the lawfulness of a proposed course of action, and there is a danger that people will confuse their policy preferences with what the law requires. But in general I don’t see any reason why a subordinate should not be able to raise well-founded legal objections to a directive.

But he said that his judgment was not based on the strength of the evidence or the legal validity of the charges. So what difference does it make that he read the files? He has the “authority” to dismiss the case against Adams because he believes that doing so will give the administration chits that it can cash in with the Mayor, I guess. But that doesn’t make it less laughable as a reason.

@NewReaganCaucus Don’t forget Ultra MAGA: “Why is this DEI hire taking Matt Gaetz’s seat?”

@LozzieDuff @secretsqrl123 I don’t know anything about you but I would have more confidence if you were in charge of our foreign policy than the guys actually there.

@CBHessick Agree with regard to Bove. With regard to Adams’s lawyers, I am not sure where you draw the line between zealous representation and attempted bribery.

@JsnFostr @OrinKerr Nothing in my statement implies any of those things. For all I know, there are good reasons to dismiss the case against Adams. All I know is that Bove gave reasons that are laughable if not downright corrupt.

@ProfDBernstein I can see the options on the Gaza referendum now: (1) Islamic caliphate; (2) Turkish protectorate; (3) Trump Hotel and Casino.

@wrdcsc Wow. He’s not a terrible lawyer, and I assume his audience is someone who does not know or care about the law or Constitution.

@DougMackeyCase @ARKloster Obviously she doesn’t have your legal experience.

@NoahCRothman First I have heard that this was an option. Very weird, since I don’t think there is much support for this in either party.

@alegalnerd @NBCNews This seems relatively normal compared to a lot of the other stuff going on.

@SeanTrende @daveweigel Can’t wait for the folks who said “if you can’t follow the president’s orders in good conscience, you should resign” to say “we didn’t mean like this.”

@TheRealBretRose @mkraju @daniellebrian The IGs are more like the refs

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