Federal prosecutors are still resigning over Eric Adams

Something is rotten in the Department of Justice. 

Three federal prosecutors told their supervisors they’d rather resign than admit to wrongdoing over their refusal to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. “We will not confess wrongdoing where there was none,” Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom wrote in an email obtained by the New York Times. The three prosecutors were placed on administrative leave this year after refusing DOJ officials’ order to drop the case against Adams.

All three prosecutors had worked under Democratic and Republican administrations and had done their part to advance the executive branches’ priorities regardless of ideology, they wrote in the email. But the Trump administration had politicized the department to an unprecedented degree. “Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington,” the email read.

The resignation email is the latest episode in a drama that has been playing out at the Justice Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The trouble began in February, when …

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