Defiance in New York

The acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, has submitted her resignation to Attorney General Pam Bondi, apparently over her refusal to seek the dismissal of charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, as Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered on Monday. I’ve noted several times over recent days that despite that order, which most people – including me, before this was flagged to me – thought ended the matter, hadn’t actually been carried out. A motion to dismiss should have shown up in the trial docket. But it hadn’t. And, as I noted, that suggested they couldn’t find someone in the New York office (SDNY) to carry it out.

Now we have our answer.

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