The American courage of Danielle Sassoon | The New Yorker

I would not think that it is possible that a member of the federalist society and former employee of the Judge of the Supreme Court of Archconservative, Antonin Scalia, shows more determination against Trumpism than all the leadership of the National Democratic Party, but here we are. Three weeks after the president Donald TrumpThe second term in office, Danielle Sassoon, a thirty -eight -year -old lawyer that Trump had appointed interim prosecutor of the United States for the Southern New York district, has provided the first dramatic control against the Trump administration fuss through of the federal government. On Wednesday, he rejected the orders of his bosses to drop the Case of Criminal Corruption against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. She offered him resignation and put his career in play, instead of doing the dirty work that Washington ordered him to do.

Sassoon’s rejection followed a long and strange courtship between Adams, a Democrat who did not call himself the “Brooklyn Biden”, and Trump, and Trump, who recently shows his companions of feeling for any politician who faces positions of Corruption, and that clearly saw an opportunity to neutralize the mayor of his hometown. The entanglement of the couple involves William Burck, one of Adams’s lawyers, who was recently appointed “external ethics advisor” to the Trump organization. On Monday, one of Trump’s criminal defense lawyers, Emil Bove III, now newly installed as the “executor” of the President in the Department of Justice, sent a memorandum to Sassoon by making him put the case of Adams on ice. In exchange for Adams cooperation with Trump’s immigration repression, said Bove Memorandum, the Department of Justice was prepared to support the foundation theory of the mayor of the case against him: that it was a politically motivated prosecution caused by its Criticism of the border policies of former President Joe Biden. “It cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the immigration policies of the previous administration before the charges were presented,” Bove wrote. “There will be no more targeting of Mayor Adams.”

Adams accepted this doubtful gift with thanks. “Now we can leave this cruel episode behind,” he said Tuesday, in a brief live Victoria speech. It declared exonerated. “I never broke the law, and I would never do it,” he said. Even some of the most firm allies of the mayor could not believe it. “Certainly it seems that President Trump is delaying the mayor,” the Reverend told Sharpton. Trump administration officials did little to dissipate hostage theory. “I come there on Thursday to meet with the mayor, whether he comes to the table or we surround him,” said Tom Homan, the “border tsar” of the president, during a radio interview. On Thursday, Adams announced that he was loosening the rules around ICE Operations in Rikers Islandthe huge complex of the city prison. “I want to work with the new federal administration, not the war with them,” he said.

But the plan was based on everyone accompanying him. And as the days passed this week, and the United States prosecutor’s office in Manhattan did not make any movement to officially file the Adams case, it became increasingly evident that the Department of Justice had some dissension in its ranks . On Wednesday night, the attorney general Pam Bondi, the newly sworn bove, held a press conference to announce a lawsuit against the state of New York for its immigration policies “Sanctuary”. He was asked about the state of the Adams case. “That case should be eliminated,” he said. “I didn’t know that I had not yet dropped, but I will investigate it.”

She didn’t seem like much. On Wednesday, Sassoon sent Bondi a letter of eight pages, explaining in detail why he would not make Bove’s offer. The letter is explicit, thorough and forceful. “It is an impressive and dangerous precedent rewarding the Adams opportunistic and changing commitments about immigration and other political issues with the dismissal of a criminal accusation,” Sassoon wrote. She made the remarkable revelation that her office was prepared to accuse Adams of misconduct beyond the bribery charges that had been beaten in September, that prosecutors had evidence that the mayor “destroyed and instructed others destroy evidence. ” He described a meeting that took place at the end of January between Bove, Adams lawyers and prosecutors in the case, during which Adams lawyer, he wrote, “repeatedly urged what was equivalent to a compensation. “Sassoon wrote that he felt that he was due to the Constitution to speak, citing Scalia, one of his conservative mentors.” I have always considered my obligation to pursue justice impartially, “she wrote. She simply couldn’t bear it (Alex Spiro, the lawyer of Adams denied the accusations in Sassoon’s letter, saying that if the prosecutors had “any proof that the mayor destroyed evidence, they would have presented those positions.”

On Thursday, Bove accepted Sassoon’s resignation and wrote an eight -page response, which leaked to the press. In all the senses that Sassoon’s letter has clear eyes and is measured, Bove’s response is weak and hysterical. “The Department of Justice will not tolerate insubordination,” he wrote, clearly restricted from the exclamation points. “You lost sight of the oath you made.” The tone was unmistakable: shame of average manager. Bove threatened Sassoon and the main prosecutors in the case with an investigation. He wrote that the Adams case was being transferred to the public integrity section of the Department of Justice. But that is also counterproductive. In a matter of hours, several higher leaders in the public integrity section had also resigned, according toward Times. No one would get rid of this problematic accusation.

For three weeks, the outstanding members of the Democratic Party have been claiming helplessness against Trump’s atrocious acts in office. They had been equally passive about the increasingly welcoming relationship of Adams with the new president. “There is no reaction at this time,” said the leader of the minority of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, after the news of the agreement between the mayor and the Department of Justice broke. “I will continue doing what I have done since September, when this began”, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul He said, that same day. Hochul has the legal power to eliminate Adams from office, but has expressed ambivalence about exercising that power since he was accused in autumn. Sassoon’s letter has increased, among other things, the number and volume of calls to Hochul to take this huge and serious step, including one of his own lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, who tweeted Thursday night that the city of New York “deserves a mayor responsible for people, not in debt to the president.” On Friday morning, Adams appeared with Tom Homan in “Fox & Friends”, The Fox News Morning Show. The mayor tried to argue that he still had control of his own destiny, even in charge of the city, but the “border tsar” undermines him. “If you don’t arrive, I will return to New York,” Homan said. “I will be in his office, in his butt, saying: ‘Where the hell is the agreement we reached?’ “