Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, faces a federal indictment for public corruption, but Emil Bove, acting head of the DOJ, has told prosecutors to drop the case. The post Ripple effects from the Eric Adams case may highlight the power of Trump’s DOJ first appeared on Law & Crime.

The New York mayor’s corruption charges may be dropped, but that won’t insulate his reelection bid from the court of public opinion. “Politically,” says one strategist, “Eric Adams is dead, dead, dead.

The president ordered the Department of Justice to drop its prosecution of the embattled mayor — but that’s just the beginning of the arrangement.