Bove finds his Bork
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Not a terrific shew:
A U.S. federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion to dismiss criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to spare other career staff from potentially being fired for refusing to do so, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department’s career public integrity prosecutors in a meeting on Friday that they had an hour to decide among themselves who would file the motion, the sources said.
The volunteer was Ed Sullivan, a veteran career prosecutor, who agreed to alleviate pressure on his colleagues in the department’s public integrity section, two sources said.
“This is not a capitulation-this is a coercion,” one of the people briefed on the meeting later told Reuters. “That person, in my mind, is a hero.”
Sullivan’s decision came after the attorneys in the meeting contemplated resigning en masse, rather than filing the motion to dismiss, another source briefed on the matter told Reuters. There are approximately 30 attorneys in the Public Integrity Section.
While multiple Federalist Society lawyers stand up to wildly improper orders, we must also remember that the conservative legal movement is also full of Trump boot-lickers with no dignity at all, such as this candidate for the John Woo Award for Tortured Reasoning (Blackman, not Vladeck, of course):
“I could’ve written about any number of the important rule-of-law and ethics questions arising out of the Adams/Bove affair. But the *real* issue to which I’ll dedicate my time is that Danielle Sassoon invoked her Scalia clerkship in her letter to the Attorney General.” reason.com/volokh/2025/…
[image or embed]— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE MEMORY OF NINO SCALIA BY SUGGESTING HE MIGHT NOT HAVE GONE FULL FASH!” I guess John Eastman’s disbarment might open up some sinecures and somebody’s got to fill the vacuum….