By Jordan Rubin\MSNBC
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Eric Adams just added a new wrinkle to the ongoing saga over the Trump Justice Department’s bid to dismiss his case. As a reminder, the DOJ moved to dismiss the Democrat’s corruption indictment “without prejudice” — which would give the Republican administration leverage to revive the case in the future — a crucial condition Adams didn’t oppose at a hearing last week.
But New York City’s mayor, who’s been politically aligning himself with the White House on immigration enforcement, now argues that his case should be dismissed forever, or “with prejudice.”
Prior to Adams raising the argument in a motion Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho had appointed a third party to help more fully explore the DOJ’s “without prejudice” dismissal bid because, without Adams opposing it, there wasn’t adversarial testing as there usually is in the American legal system. Those newly requested legal arguments haven’t come in yet — Judge Ho ordered them due in writing March 7, with possible oral argument to follow on March 14. READ MORE…
