It didn’t take long after the Justice Department dropped the sweeping corruption case against embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams for political and legal observers to weigh in on social media.The new development came Monday when a senior Trump administration DOJ official turned Adams’ criminal ...

OOOOOHHHHHH, I was wondering where the hook came in for the EO issued earlier today. More favors and corruption. Trump is trying to get back into NYC.

  • JPAKx4
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    16 hours ago

    Since you can’t convict somebody for the same crime twice (double jeopardy) the state and the federal government have to decide together which to charge. Usually they go with whatever has the greater punishment. When charges are dropped like this it just opens for the next guy to pick them up, in this case NY.

    To be clear, IANAL

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      A state can’t, and fed can’t, but both can, exclusively to each other.